Jane Nickerson and the White Bread Book

I just started reading the book, White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf. While it has been an interesting read, I was sad to read that New York Times food writer Jane Nickerson’s name was misspelled as “Janet Nickerson” on page 228. I am finishing up a conference paper about Jane. She was likely the first food writer at the New York Times – a position she held until 1957. While she supposedly “retired” at that point, she was actually taken a few years off to raise her children before returning to food journalism at the Lakeland Ledger – a NY Times newspaper.

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