Top Food Editors: Day 15 and Grace Hartley
Day 15 of Top Food Editors features Grace Hartley from Atlanta.
Grace Hartley had a home economics degree from the Georgia College for Women in Milledgeville – now Georgia College. Her first job was with a social service agency where, in the depth of the Depression, she taught social workers how to plan meals for families and instructed people in food preparation. She was the food editor at the Atlanta Constitution for more than four decades, 1936 to 1970 and wrote for the newspaper’s weekly magazine for another decade.
She worked for the War Production Board during World War II. She wrote a well-respected cookbook about Southern food. She had one of the first electric ranges in Atlanta, and likely the first microwave, a massive piece of equipment that stood 5 feet tall, with a conventional oven underneath. She was married for 33 years to Judson G. Germon.
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