Mimi Sheraton, Craig Claiborne and the NYT

I was reading former New York Times’ food writer Mimi Sheraton’s memoir, Eating My Words, when I came across a telling section about her being hired by the legendary newspaper.

She wrote that when NYT food editor Craig Claiborne (who took over from Jane Nickerson in 1957) left the newspaper in 1972, she and other female New York food writers were not considered as replacements: “Neither I nor any other female food writer I knew was given an interview for his job, no matter her credentials. (If any were interviewed, I still would like to hear about it.)”

Sheraton was eventually hired for the position but it is telling that after so much that women in food journalism were accomplishing, gender could still stand in the way.

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