Barbara Ketcham Wheaton [SEP] educated at
Barbara Ketcham Wheaton
Barbara Ketcham Wheaton, born in Philadelphia in 1931, is a writer, a noted food historian, and since 1990 the honorary curator of the culinary collection at the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College, one of the largest U. S. collections of books and manuscripts relating to cooking and the social history of food. In 1976 she produced a modern edition of Agnes B. Marshall's Victorian classic "The Book of Ices", originally published in London in 1885. She is the author of the well-reviewed "
2003-2007, of the Charitable Trust for the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery and has been vice-president since 2008 of the American Friends of the Oxford Symposium. She is also an Overseer at Plimoth Plantation and a Corporator of the Worcester Art Museum. On October 28, 2007, the Schlesinger Library held a day-long symposium to mark her seventy-fifth birthday.
Publications by Barbara Ketcham Wheaton.
- Books
- (introduction and annotations) "Ices, Plain and Fancy: The Book of