Pinterest and Recipe Sharing

Today, the food section of The New York Times repinned my photo of the Beachy Christmas Cookies I made this year. (The sand in the photo is crushed graham crackers.) It is just one more example of how the food sections of newspapers have long had a social media voice that connects reporters and readers.

It is common for newspapers to have Christmas cookie competitions or other best recipe contests. For many years in the 1940s, Chicago Tribune food editor Ruth Ellen Church (who wrote under the pen name Mary Meade) had a weekly recipe contest.

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