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Cookbook Dedications: Day One

Most of the newspaper food editors in my book, The Food Section, wrote cookbooks. Some of them (such as Ruth Ellen Church and Jeanne Voltz) wrote numerous cookbooks.

One of my favorite parts of my research was reading the dedications in the cookbooks which gave me some insight into the women. This is the dedication from Denver food editor Helen Dollaghan’s Best Main Dishes:

“For my husband, and in memory of my mother, Helen Neuer Dollaghan.

Mom taught me how to cook, beginning with the basics of making gravy.

Cecil, my husband, never complained when the gravy had a few lumps in it along the way.”

I will be blogging about food editor cookbook dedications all week.

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