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Julia Child Speaks to Food Editors
I just came across this great image of Julia Child. She is speaking on taking the mystery out of fine French seafood cookery, in New York, October 5, 1964, before the Newspaper Food Editors Conference, under the sponsorship of the National Fisheries Institute. It is available in Child’s papers at the Schlesinger Library. Here is the link. Here is a link to a story about Julia written by one of the newspaper food journalists that I am beginning to collect information about: Katie Carlson. Carlson was the longtime food editor at the Daytona Beach Morning Journal. Here is my earlier post about her that described Carlson as “Martha Stewart before…
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Clementine Paddleford Clips
I recently came across this clip written by New York Herald Tribune food writer Clementine Paddleford. Here is a great article about Clementine. Her papers are at Kansas State University. Her writing had considerable reach but she has largely been overshadowed by the New York Times food editor Craig Claiborne.
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Orlando Chili Cook-Off
Today we went to the Orlando Chili Cook-Off. I have been looking into these cook-offs for the food journalism book that I am writing. These competitions followed the beginning of the Pillsbury Bake-Offs – covered by the women’s pages. I have been looking into these cook-offs for the food journalism book that I am writing. These competitions followed the beginning of the Pillsbury Bake-Offs – covered by the women’s pages. Here is a link to a history of the chili cook-off. In it, the author notes that food history had recently been corrected to show that the first such cook-off was in 1950. It was learned in a newspaper clipping.…
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Grocery Stores, Advertising & Food Journalism
Watch CBS News Videos Online I am now studying the history of grocery stores. These stores provided much of the advertising for women’s pages in newspapers. Here is an interesting story about the history of grocery stores. The reporter wrote:“Women in particular were freed from the chore of shopping at several locations. ‘Supermarkets played a large role in liberating the woman,’ said Louis Bucklin, professor emeritus of business administration at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. ‘They reduced the amount of time they had to spend on shopping, with fewer trips to the store.’” I am looking to track the impact of food advertising and the content of the food…
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Day Seven: Women’s Page History in 7 Objects
The seventh object that represents the women’s page is a quilt. Most of journalism history considers the content of women’s pages to be soft news. Yet, a closer examination of the women’s sections in the 1950s and 1960s shows more complex content. There was soft news – personality profiles, fashion stories and features. There were also stories about politics, education news and family violence. The women’s page editors created a new kind of news within the social fabric of their communities – a kind of quilted news. Quilts have become recognized as art – largely women’s art – in recent decades. Some credit the counterculture’s arts-and-crafts movement in the 1960s…
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Day Six: Women’s Page History in 7 Objects
The sixth object representing women’s pages is a cookbook. Most newspapers put out a cookbook at some point. Sometimes the books were a creation of the newspaper’s food editor, such as the Arizona Republic’s Dorothee Polson’s Pot au Feu. Other times, the books were a collection of recipes from readers, such as the Milwaukee Journal’s Peggy Daum’s Best Cook on the Block Cookbook.
A website devoted to the history of newspaper women's pages
