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Women’s History Month: Rosa Tusa
Day 11 of Women’s History Month highlights Rosa Tusa – from Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Palm Beach, Florida.
Rosa Tulsa learned to cook from her Italian father and was hired by the Milwaukee Sentinel’s women’s pages in 1953. She became the Sentinel food editor in 1962. She married painter Kyril Vassilev after meeting when Tusa interviewed him for a story. The couple lived in a castle and raised Great Danes. She was a good friend of Poppy Cannon and judged the 1970 Pillsbury Bake-Off.
In 1971, she and her husband moved to Florida and she became the food editor of the Palm Beach Post. During her career, she attempted to cook a mouse nose and fought a bull in Spain.
She retired in 1987. She wrote a cookbook about grits that I found on eBay.
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