Blanche Zacharie de Baralt

Jane Blanche Zacharie Hutchings de Baralt (1865/66–1950) was an American-Cuban lecturer, writer and translator. She was the first woman to receive a degree in philosophy from the University of Havana and the first person to translate Rabindranath Tagore into Spanish. In a 1931 cookbook, she provided an early recipe for the mojito cocktail. but according to one source she was born on September 17, 1866.

In 1913 she read Tagore's poetry collection Gitanjali. On August 6, 1913, she published a review, along with some of Tagore's poems translated into Spanish, in the Cuban newspaper El Diario de la Marina. This is said to be the first Spanish translation of his poetry. It was the first English-language guide to Cuban cuisine, illustrated by the Cuban artists Conrado W. Massaguer and Federico Edelmann. Clearly directed at an international readership, the book emphasized European origins of Cuban food. Baralt argued that "the cuisine of a country is one of its psychological aspects, an accumulation of slow growth, almost a synthesis of its civilization". An appendix on Cuban drinks included a recipe for a mojito

In 1945 she published a book about the Cuban national hero José Martí.

Works Estudios de arte y de vida [Studies in art and life]. París: P. Ollendorff. Cuban cookery: gastronomic secrets of the Tropics, with an appendix on Cuban drinks. Havana: Hermes, 1931. El Martí quo yo conocí [The El Martí I knew]. La Habana: Editorial Trópico, 1945.