New Mary Meade (Ruth Ellen Church) Cookbook

This cookbook written by Mary Meade (the pen name of Ruth Ellen Church) arrived on Friday. Church wrote an amazing number of cookbooks while the food editor of the Chicago Tribune from 1936 to 1974. This cookbook, The Modern Homemaker Cookbook, was published in 1966.

I am currently collecting material for a conference paper on Church’s career. Her reporting and writing demonstrate that food journalism was more complex than the historical record has shown.

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