Researching Food Journalism History
Research for my upcoming book, The Food Section: Newspaper Women and the Culinary Community, meant some great culinary adventures.
Lance & I along with both children attended the International Food & Wine Festival at Epcot last fall as I began looking at how Orlando Sentinel food editor Dorothy Chapman covered the theme park restaurants.
Last Christmas, I entered the NY Times Cookie Contest that was held on Pinterest. I submitted by beachy cookie creation. Most newspaper food sections held regular cooking contests for home cooks.
In February 2013, we attended the Orlando Chili Cook-Off to look at how the judging for the competition was done. Newspaper food editors were often the judges in cooking competition.
I collected recipe writing materials and practiced my recipe skills. I attempted to take an online recipe writing class with Cook ‘n Scribble but it didn’t work out.
Last Summer, Lance and I went through the memoirs of Orlando Sentinel food editor Grace Barr’s son. His papers are at the Orange County History Center and gave me some insight to Barr’s career. (She was the food editor before Dorothy Chapman.)
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