Women’s History Month: Phyllis Tamor
Day 26 of Women’s History Month features Phyllis Tamor of the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Phyllis Tamor was a home economics graduate of Pennsylvania State University. She worked as a home economist for a Chicago meat company in the 1950s. It involved a great deal of travel and a daily taste testing of steak when she was in town. She sometimes made presentations under the name of “Martha Logan.”
She went on to become the food editor for the Cincinnati Enquirer. She judged several cooking contest, including a 1964 meat roasting contest that was also covered by a Sports Illustrated reporter. She did graduate work in nutrition.
She left the journalism field in the 1960s and went into public relations when she developed multiple sclerosis at age 46. This caused her to write a cookbook for those cooking from a wheelchair. It also led to the publication of several of her recipes in newspapers in the 1980s.
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