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Top Food Editors: Day Six & Cecily Brownstone

Day six of top newspaper food editors features Cecily Brownstone – the longtime food editor at the Associated Press. She had daily recipes and a weekly column from 1947 to 1986.

She was a close friend and confident of James Beard who spoke on the phone almost daily, at 8 a.m.

New York Times food columnist Molly O’Neil called Brownstone one of the “cornerstones of authentic cooking in New York.”

Upon Brownstone’s retirement, former New York Times Food Editor Jane Nickerson wrote: “Of syndicated food writers, she’s been the most widely read.”

Her papers are at the Fales Library at NYU. This images – from a dinner party at her brownstone – can be found in her papers.

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