Barbara Kafka
Barbara Kafka was an American food columnist and cookbook author.
Biography
Born Barbara Joan Poses in Manhattan, she was the only child of Lillian Shapiro Poses and Jack I. Poses. Her mother was the first woman to graduate from the New York University School of Law who worked for several New Deal agencies under FDR. Her father was one of the founders of Brandeis University, the founder and president of perfume manufacturer Parfums D’Orsay and the vice chair of the New York City Board of Higher Education.Kafka attended Radcliffe College after graduating from the Dalton School. While at Radcliffe, she met Ernest Kafka, whom she married. When he went to medical school in St. Louis, she went with him and worked editing medical journals. When they returned to New York, she began working as an editor at Mademoiselle. It is because Leo Lerman suggested she write and the fact he networked with Allene Talmey of Vogue that she became a food writer.
Because of their love of art, the Kafka would spend the summer in Provincetown, Massachusetts which was called "Summer Center of Abstract Expressionism."
She died at her home in Manhattan due to complications from Parkinson's.