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Women’s History Month: Ruth Casa-Emellas
Day 28 of Women’s History month features Ruth P. Casa-Emellos, a former home economist for The New York Times. She worked with Jane Nickerson who I blogged about yesterday. In the photo above, she is feeding New York Herald Tribune food editor Clementine Paddleford. Casa-Emellos taught at Columbia University for 20 years before joining the food-news staff of The Times in 1943. Working with Nickerson, Casa-Emellos prepared the dishes that appeared in recipes and food photographs in the newspaper. She tested the recipes for accuracy in The Times’s test kitchen and adapted them, when necessary, for home use. She also wrote occasional columns on food. In one example, she re-created…
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Women’s History Month: Jane Nickerson
Day 27 of Women’s History Month features New York Times food editor Jane Nickerson. Nickerson’s work is often overshadowed by Craig Claiborne at the NYT. He is given credit for including news in the food section in 1957 but Jane had been doing that since World War II. The story of Nickerson’s resignation from the newspaper was explained in Craig Claiborne’s memoir, A Memoir with Recipes: A Feast Made for Laughter (New York: Doubleday & Co., 1982). He wrote that at the beginning of 1957, she told the Times that “for reasons for family” she would be resigning from the newspaper as of September 1. Claiborne, who became the NYT…
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Women’s History Month: Cecily Brownstone
Day 26 of Women’s History month feature food writer Cecily Brownstone – her food columns ran in newspapers across the country. She has been described as “the ad hoc matriarch of James Beard’s culinary salon” and a “cuisine maven.” While she has been largely overshadowed by culinary writers like Beard and Craig Claiborne, she had a broad reach in her food journalism in her nearly four decade career. Brownstone wrote about food for the Associated Press from 1947 until she retired in 1986. Brownstone wrote two columns about cuisine and five recipes a week for the national wire service for an estimated 14,200 articles during her career. She explored changes…
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- food editors, food history, food journalism, Mary Meade, Ruth Ellen Church, women's history month, women's page history
Women’s History Month: Ruth Ellen Church
Day 25 of Women’s History Month features the Chicago Tribune’s Ruth Ellen Church (who often used the byline Mary Meade). She was the food editor from 1936 to 1974. She graduated from Iowa State University in 1933 with a degree in food and nutrition journalism. She guided the development of The Tribune’s test kitchen, one of the first at a newspaper, and in 1962 became the first American writing a regular wine column. She won six Vesta Awards – the top recognition for food sections. In 1948, Church introduced the recipe feature “Cake of the Week.” Church was quoted: “My staff and I have known for a long time that…
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Women’s History Month: Anne Rowe Goldman
Day 24 of Women’s History Month features Anne Rowe Goldman from the St. Pete Times. A New Jersey native, Anne Rowe moved to St. Petersburg at a young age. Three days after she graduated from St. Petersburg High School, she began working at the library of the St. Petersburg Times. It was the 1950s and she was only 17 years old. During the next 12 years, she was a copy editor, women’s editor of the St. Petersburg Times and then women’s editor of the St. Petersburg Evening Independent. She won three Penney-Missouri Awards – the top national recognition for women’s pages. In 1966, she was promoted to the Times as…
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Women’s History Month: Edee Greene, Part II
I was more than a little disappointed to read this sexist headline and lead in the Orlando Sentinel yesterday:“Mom wrestles alligator away from school as last bell rings” “When a pushy 7-foot alligator tried to break through a chain-link fence onto the Clermont Middle School campus on Thursday, Lake County mom Jessica McGregor took charge. McGregor, who’s also a Lake County deputy, didn’t want to wait nearly two hours for a distant trapper to show up and cart the offending party off to his destiny as an expensive purse. Especially when the final bell of the school day was ringing and parents were picking up students.” There was no need…
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