BARBARA NORMAN MAKANOWITZKY

MAKANOWITZKY
BARBARA NORMAN died on November 18, 2011, a resident of Cathedral Village. She was the author of The Spanish Cookbook, The Russian Cookbook, Tales of the Table, Requiem for a Spanish Village and Napoleon and Talleyrand, all published by Stein and Day and Prentice Hall. A graduate of Stanford University, she worked for the U.S. State Department, living in Washington, DC, Munich and Paris. Fluent in Russian, French, Spanish and Catalan, she translated several Russian classics of Tolstoy, Turgenev and Chekhov for publication. In her later years, she became a featured artist of the Pastel Journal producing dramatic depictions of sea, foam and clouds which appear in various galleries around the U.S. She was the widow of famed Concert Violinist, Paul Makanowitzky, who in his later years taught at Curtis Institute, Julliard and University of Michigan.