Barbara Ketcham Wheaton

Since 1990, she has been honorary curator of the culinary collection at the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College, one of the largest collections in the United States of books and manuscripts relating to cooking and the social history of food.

[1] In 1976, Wheaton produced a modern edition of Agnes B. Marshall's Victorian classic The Book of Ices, originally published in London in 1885.

[3] She developed "The Cook's Oracle",[4] a searchable database that establishes relationships among recipes in cookbooks from different historical periods.

Wheaton hopes to find someone who will continue her database, now on Microsoft Access, and make it available.

In 1964-65 she attended the École des Trois Gourmandes founded in Paris by Julia Child, Simone Beck, and Louisette Bertholle.