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Researching Food Editor Grace Barr
Tomorrow, Lance & I are going to visit the Orange County Regional History Center to go through the papers of Grace Barr’s son, Graham Barr. Grace Barr was the food editor at the Orlando Sentinel in the 1960s. I am hoping the papers reveal more about Grace’s career.
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American Midwest Foodways Scholar’s Grant
I am happy to announce that my proposal “Stirring the Pot: The Story of Newspaper Food Journalism, Home Cooks & Ruth Ellen Church” has been awarded an American Midwest Foodways Scholar’s Grant. I will be researching the career of longtime Chicago Tribune food editor Ruth Ellen Church who often wrote under the pen name “Mary Meade.” Her work is a major part of the book I am writing about newspaper food editors. According to the press release:“Greater Midwest Foodways Alliance in collaboration with Culinary Historians of Chicago and with funding from the Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts is pleased to announce financial support for the study…
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Miami News Billie O’Day Obituary
I was happy to see the obituary of Miami News women’s page editors Billie O’Day. It ran in the Miami Herald recently. She was the longtime Miami News women’s page editor who won several Penney-Missouri Awards – the top recognition for women’s pages. This is my favorite part:“Summing herself up in her notes, Billie O’Day wrote: “I believed Anita Hill. My favorite TV shows are ‘Sherlock Holmes,’ ‘Brooklyn Bridge,’ ‘Murder She Wrote,’ ‘The Civil War,’ and any other documentary by Ken Burns. “I watch CNN and C-Span. I go to lunch every day with my next-door neighbor, a Juilliard grad and a terrific vocalist and pianist. I don’t go out…
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Talking About Florida Women’s Page Editors
I enjoyed talking about Florida women’s page editors this morning on the ReThinking the City radio program on Rollin College’s WPRK. Florida was the place to be for women’s page journalists in the 1950s and 1960s. They were a progressive group who dominated the Penney-Missouri Awards – the top recognition for the women’s pages. The Fort Lauderdale News women’s page editor Edee Greene is in the far right in the photo. Her grandson Patrick was a co-host on the radio program.
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Orlando Sentinel Food Editor Grace Barr
Tomorrow I will be speaking on the program, ReThinking the City on Rollins College radio station WPRK. I plan to mention some of the significant Florida food editors. Yesterday I learned about Grace Warlow Barr who was the longtime food editor at the Orlando Sentinel. I loved this from her obituary: “Barr was a tall, stately woman who stayed slim throughout her life, but her homemade delicacies were not for the diet-conscious. ” ‘Start with a stick of butter. . .’ has become the hallmark of Mrs. Barr’s approach to fine cooking,” a Sentinel editor wrote in a tribute to Barr in 1969. ”Her cooking was perfectly delicious,” Newhart said.…
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Guest Post on The Feminist Kitchen
Here is a link to my guest post on The Feminist Kitchen: Fifty Years After The Feminine Mystique, remembering Peg Bracken. Peg had a syndicated column that ran in the women’s pages of many newspapers.
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