Barbara Albright
Barbara Albright was an American author of about 25 food and knitting books.Biography
Albright graduated from Fremont High School in Fremont, Nebraska and from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln with a bachelor's degree in food and nutrition. In 1980, she received her master's degree in nutrition communications from Boston University.
She was the author or co-authored of numerous cookbooks and knitting books, including Cooking with Regis and Kathie Lee, Entertaining with Regis and Kathie Lee, Mostly Muffins and its followup More Muffins, Oddball Knitting, and The Natural Knitter.
She was a food editor at Redbook and Woman's World magazines and editor-in-chief of The Chocolatier magazine. She also wrote articles for Good Housekeeping, Traditional Home, Family Fun and Country Living magazines and the Associated Press.
In 1999, she was inducted into the James Beard Cookbook Hall of Fame.
A resident of Wilton, Connecticut, Albright died of a brain tumor at a Branford, Connecticut hospice at age 51 on July 5, 2006.
