Teatime to Tailgates & Kathleen Kelly
Just read Teatime to Tailgates and absolutely loved it. Author Jane P. Marshall documented 150 or food, cooking and home economics history at Kansas State University. (Lance is a K-State graduate.) She also includes lots of great recipes. It’s a great read for culinary historians and those interested in regional histories.
My favorite part of the book was the history of women who became food editors. There are two K-State graduates in my book, The Food Section: Clementine Paddleford and Ruth Gorrell Gray.
I learned about a new food editor while reading Teatime to Tailgates: Kathleen Kelly who was at the Wichita Eagle-Beacon for forty years. She is like most of the women in my book. According to her obituary:
“Ms. Kelly’s two columns, Kitchen Kibitzing and Armchair Shopper, became regular features of the paper’s LifeStyle pages. She also conducted the paper’s annual Favorite Recipe Contest and supervised production of the Holiday Cookbook.
She made trips to Europe and Southeast Asia on assignment for the Eagle-Beacon and attended cooking demonstrations at the famous LaVarenne and Cordon Bleu cooking schools in Paris, and spent five days in the south of France cooking with Simone Beck, Julia Child’s co-author for “Mastering the Art of French Cooking.”
When she left the Eagle in 1994, she told readers that over four decades they had laughed and cried together:
“We’ve broken bread, harvested persimmons, licked bowls, stuffed sausage, tied comforters … We’ve explored whipped cream and chocolate, organ meats and oat bran, with equal abandon … We’ve traveled the world and, best of all, we’ve gotten into the nooks and crannies of Kansas.”
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