DeSilva, Cara
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Fuller Name
- Carol Eileen
Variants
- Silva, Cara De
- De Silva, Cara
- Krawetz, Carol, 1939-2022
Additional Information
Birth Date
- 1939-03-03
Death Date
- 2022-12-07
Descriptor
- Saveur
Birth Place
- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)
Associated Language
- English
Field of Activity
(wikidata) Food culture
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Sources
- found: Gypsy Lore Society. North Amer. Chap. Meeting (8th : 1986 : New York, N.Y.). Papers from the Eighth and Ninth ... c1988:CIP t.p. (Cara De Silva) bk. t.p. (Cara DeSilva)
- found: In memory's kitchen: a legacy from the women of Terezin, 1996:title page (edited by Cara DeSilva)
- found: New York times, 2 Jan. 2023:in an obituary on page B6 (Cara De Silva; born Carol Eileen Krawetz on March 3, 1939 in Manhattan [New York], died 7 Dec. [2022] in Manhattan, aged 83; historian who preserved Jewish recipes; journalist and historian of food and culinary culture who in 1996 edited a ground-breaking collection of recipes amassed by prisoners in a Nazi concentration camp; made her name as a reporter for Newsday and later became a freelance writer for publications like The New York Times and the food, wine and travel magazine Saveur; in her youth, Carol was active in Yiddish theater -- along the way, she adopted a stage name, Cara De Silva, which she kept as a pen name after she became a writer)
- notfound: Wikidata, 22 Jan. 2023
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Change Notes
- 1988-03-09: new
- 2023-01-23: revised
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