Cleora's Kitchens: A Memoir of a Cook and Eight Decades of Great American Food

When Barbara Haber, curator of Radcliffe College's 4000-volume cookbook library, was asked by The Boston Globe to name her favorite book in that famous collection, she picked Cleora's Kitchens. Why? "Because," Ms. Haber said, "it expresses, through food, joy…you have the connection of food being celebratory in truly meaningful ways. Just wonderful stuff."