Jane Nickerson’s Florida Cookbook

I have been re-reading Jane Nickerson‘s Florida Cookbook and have found some interesting details. I like when a cookbook author sprinkles details about her life among the recipes. For example, on page 114 in a recipe for Avocado Grapefruit Salad, she wrote: “When I was in college during the Depression, I waited on tables at the formal dinner parties of Harvard professors.”

She also wrote about a trip her daughter took and the recipe she came home with. The book is dedicated to her children: Marc, Alexandra, Jay and Rick.

Jane was the first food editor at the New York Times, from 1945-1957. Later, she was the food editor at the Lakeland Ledger in Central Florida.

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