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Top Food Editors: Day Seven & Jane Nickerson
Day seven of top newspaper food editors features Jane Nickerson – the first food editor of the New York Times.
In 1938, she graduated from the all-female Radcliffe College. The following year, she began her journalism career as an editorial assistant for the Ladies Home Journal. She moved on to the Saturday Evening Post before moving to New York City in 1942 to work at The New York Times. She left the newspaper in 1957 and was replaced by Craig Claiborne.
After raising four children, she wrote a cookbook and became the food editor at the Lakeland Ledger in 1972. She also reviewed restaurants for the newspaper.
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