Women’s History Month: Ruth Casa-Emellas
Day 28 of Women’s History month features Ruth P. Casa-Emellos, a former home economist for The New York Times. She worked with Jane Nickerson who I blogged about yesterday. In the photo above, she is feeding New York Herald Tribune food editor Clementine Paddleford.
Casa-Emellos taught at Columbia University for 20 years before joining the food-news staff of The Times in 1943.
Working with Nickerson, Casa-Emellos prepared the dishes that appeared in recipes and food photographs in the newspaper.
She tested the recipes for accuracy in The Times’s test kitchen and adapted them, when necessary, for home use. She also wrote occasional columns on food.
In one example, she re-created the dishes served on the fashionable Italian cruise line, the Saturnia. That story is included in this cookbook about shrimp meals.
Born in Winston-Salem, she was a graduate of Salem College. She received a second bachelor’s degree from Columbia and a master’s degree in foods from Teachers College.
Her husband, Ernesto Casa-Emellos, a wholesale jeweler, died in 1968.
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