New Image of Food Journalists
I was working on my book manuscript about food newspaper journalism when I came across this great image of Clementine Paddleford and Ruth Casa-Emellos. They are judge entries in Pillsbury’s 3rd National Baking Contest, Waldorf-Astoria, New York City, in 1951. It can be found here at the Truman Library & Museum.
Paddleford was a food writer for the New York Herald Tribune in the 1950s and 1960s. A great book was written about her life – Hometown Appetites. Her papers are in the archives of Kansas State University – where my husband earned his master’s degree.
I am currently researching Casa-Emellos who had been hired as a food tester at the New York Times by Jane Nickerson.
The above image verifies what I had guessed – that food editors have long been judges at cooking competitions.
