Barbara Albright

Who was Barbara Albright?

Barbara Albright was an American author of about 25 food and knitting books. She was also former editor-in-chief of The Chocolatier magazine, a food editor as Redbook and Woman's World and a freelance writer for the Associated Press.

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 communication 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, Oddball Knitting, and The Natural Knitter.

A resident of Wilton, Connecticut, Albright died of a brain tumor at a Branford, Connecticut hospice at age 51 on July 5, 2006.