Milwaukee Journal’s women’s pages
I am working on the fashion, food and furnishing stories in the women’s pages of the Milwaukee Journal in the 1950s and 1960s. I came across an interesting quote from food writer Clarice Rowlands. In a profile of her – after winning an award – she is asked the question that tends to irritate many food writers: Does she cook? (Fashion writers hated to be asked if they sewed.) These women found it undermined their roles as journalists. After all, a sports journalist isn’t asked if he played baseball.
This was Rowlands’ 1961 response: “No, I am a reporter in the field and it is not any more necessary for me to prepare all the food I write about than it is for the paper’s crime reporter to commit the crimes about which he writes.”
Milwaukee Journal’s women’s pages
I am working on the fashion, food and furnishing stories in the women’s pages of the Milwaukee Journal in the 1950s and 1960s. I came across an interesting quote from food writer Clarice Rowlands. In a profile of her – after winning an award – she is asked the question that tends to irritate many food writers: Does she cook? (Fashion writers hated to be asked if they sewed.) These women found it undermined their roles as journalists. After all, a sports journalist isn’t asked if he played baseball.
This was Rowlands’ 1961 response: “No, I am a reporter in the field and it is not any more necessary for me to prepare all the food I write about than it is for the paper’s crime reporter to commit the crimes about which he writes.”