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Barbara Haber, maiden name Lubotsky, was born on April 1, 1934, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. She is a daughter of John Lubotsky and Belle Lubotsky, maiden name Goldberg.
Barbara Haber, historian, librarian, speaker, writer, author.
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Barbara Haber earned a Master of Arts from the University of Chicago.
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Barbara Haber earned a Master of Library Science from Simmons University.
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Barbara Haber attended Boston College.
Barbara Haber, historian, librarian, speaker, writer, author.
Barbara Haber, historian, librarian, speaker, writer, author.
Barbara Haber, historian, librarian, speaker, writer, author.
Barbara Haber (left) and Rosemary Fry Plakas examine some of the rare cookbooks.
Barbara Haber is a member of the Organization of American Historians.
Barbara Haber is a member of the National Women's Studies Association.
Barbara Haber is a member of the Organization of American Historians.
Barbara Haber is a member of the National Women's Studies Association.
Barbara Haber, historian, librarian, speaker, writer, author.
Barbara Haber, historian, librarian, speaker, writer, author.
Barbara Haber, historian, librarian, speaker, writer, author.
Barbara Haber (left) and Rosemary Fry Plakas examine some of the rare cookbooks.
5801 S Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL 60637, United States
Barbara Haber earned a Master of Arts from the University of Chicago.
300 Fenway, Boston, MA 02115, United States
Barbara Haber earned a Master of Library Science from Simmons University.
140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, United States
Barbara Haber attended Boston College.
(An annotated bibliography of books published between 1963...)
An annotated bibliography of books published between 1963 and 1979 about abortion, crime, education, feminism, marriage, rape, religion, sex roles, and other issues concerning women.
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1978
(An expert on women's and culinary history takes readers o...)
An expert on women's and culinary history takes readers on a fascinating tour of American history using food as a main focus, drawing on diaries, journals, memoirs, and old cookbooks to provide a close-up look at two centuries of American culinary history.
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2002
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Barbara Haber, maiden name Lubotsky, was born on April 1, 1934, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. She is a daughter of John Lubotsky and Belle Lubotsky, maiden name Goldberg.
Barbara Haber attended Washington High School. She earned a Bachelor of Science from the University of Wisconsin in 1955; a Master of Arts from the University of Chicago in 1957; a Master of Library Science from Simmons College (now Simmons University) in 1968. She also attended Boston College.
In 1961-1963, Barbara Haber worked as an instructor at Wayne State University. In 1964-1966, she was an instructor at Highland Park Community College. In 1968, she became a curator of books at the Schlesinger Library of Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She also co-founded the Radcliffe Culinary Times and the Boston Culinary Historians. To further promote the study of food, she served as senior advisory editor and contributed chapters on culinary history to the Cambridge World History of Food and the Encyclopedia of the History of American Food and Beverages, published by Oxford University Press. In 1981, Haber became a women's studies in religion advisor committee member of Harvard Divinity School. In 1982, she became a trustees committee member of the Business and Professional Women's Foundation.
Barbara Haber's book, Women in America: A Guide to Books, 1963-1975, is a bibliography of 450 books published from 1963 to 1975, covering eighteen women's issues, including abortion, education, work, popular culture, and rape. In From Hardtack to Home Fries: An Uncommon History' of American Cooks and Meals Haber provides numerous stories on the history of American food and cooking from the 1840s to 2002. Stories include the diets of prisoners of war during World War II, the origination of the graham cracker, and why meals were so bad in Franklin Delano Roosevelt's White House.
She has served as senior advisory editor to food encyclopedias and wrote the book From Hardtack to Home Fries: An Uncommon History of American Cooks and Meals, and many articles on food subjects for Harvard Magazine, Yankee Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, the Dictionary of American History, Notable American Women and many other popular and professional publications.
Haber has also been a consulting writer, speaker, and advisor for public-relations agencies serving such organizations as Kraft Foods, McCormick, the Olive Oil Council, the Walnut Marketing Board, and the Chocolate Manufacturers of America, and for food-study groups seeking public funding.
She contributes a monthly column to Zester Daily, a website devoted to the culture of food and drink, and has been serving recently as a food history lecturer on transatlantic voyages of the Queen Mary 2. Haber has also written on food topics for Harvard Magazine, Yankee Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, the Dictionary of American History, Notable American Women and many other popular and professional publications, including Through the Kitchen Window: Women Explore the Intimate Meanings of Food and Cooking and From Betty Crocker to Feminist Food Studies, which she co-edited with Arlene Avakian.
Barbara Haber serves on the governing board of the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) and the awards board of the James Beard Foundation. She earlier served on the advisory board of the University of California Food and Culture series and its journal Gastronomica.
As a librarian, Barbara Haber developed a collection of over 16,000 volumes on cooking and food for the Schlesinger Library, at Harvard's Radcliffe Institute. For her many contributions to the study of food, she was inducted into the James Beard Foundation's Who's Who in American Food and Beverages and received the prestigious M.F.K. Fischer Award from Les Dames Des Escoffier. In the 2005 Food Issue of the New Yorker, Barbara Haber was praised for having "invented the history of women and food." She has also been seen on Today, Martha Stewart Living, and other TV programs and interviewed in such publications as Newsweek, the New York Times, and Bon Appetite. Praise for the book "From Hardtack to Home Fries: An Uncommon History of American Cooks and Meals" came from Julia Child, Gourmet Magazine, and other food notables as well as academic historians, and a chapter appeared in Best Food Writing 2002.
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1978Barbara Haber supports Democratic Party views.
During the emerging feminist movement in the late 1960s, Barbara Haber could have been considered a radical. Although her library was building collections to support new women's studies programs, she dared to promote food history and cooking as legitimate studies relevant to women's history.
Barbara Haber married Herbert Robert Haber, a professor, on August 24, 1959. She has two sons: Jonathan and Nicholas.
Herbert Robert Haber taught English literature and writing at Clark University in Worcester, Wayne State University in Detroit, and at the University of Lowell. He became interested in technical writing which he taught, and then, with his sons, started a successful family publishing and software business, SkillCheck, Inc., in 1988. The business was sold in 2006 and then he retired.
