Top Food Editors: Day 23 & Jeanne Voltz
Day 23 of Top Food Editors features Jeanne Voltz.
Jeanne Voltz earned a journalism degree from what is now the University of Montevallo. She worked the news beat during World War II and got married to a fellow journalist. She then became the food editor at the Miami Herald in the 1950s and at the Los Angeles Times in the 1960s through the early 1970s.
She later became the food editor at Woman’s Day magazine. She wrote many cookbooks and was considered an expert on BBQ and Southern cooking. She was married for most of her career and raised two children. She published many cookbooks – several of which are shown above.
In her more than forty years as a food journalist, Voltz became what one culinary authority described as “the best known food expert you’ve probably never heard of.”
Here is a link to my article about her from American Journalism.
