Great Food History Story in Austin American-Statesman
I truly appreciate this Austin American-Statesman story about my book The Food Section.
A great lead: “Kimberly Wilmot Voss admits that her 2014 book “The Food Section” was motivated in part by spite.
The University of Central Florida associate professor had long studied journalism history with a focus on women’s pages, whose coverage of the four F’s — family, food, fashion and finishing, called “soft news” — has long been dismissed among most journalism historians as unimportant or irrelevant.”
I also loved this quote: “These women were considered nothing,” Voss says. “They were real journalists and home economists, but they certainly weren’t corrupt and they were nobody’s fool.”
I also liked the research Addie did about Texas newspaper food editors. This is an image of Houston food editor Ann Criswell. Addie interviewed Ann for the article.
