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Fales Library & Papers of Cecily Brownstone
This week I received some copies from the Fales Library and Special Collections at NYU. The Library is building a collection related to food. I had ordered copies from the papers of Cecily Brownstone – the longtime food writer for the Associated Press. Here is more about her career. What I received were letters from Jeanne Voltz (who was the food editor at the Miami Herald in the 1950s and the Los Angeles Times in the 1960s) and Jane Nickerson (who was the food editor at the New York Times and the Lakeland Ledger). My favorite part was the note from Jane’s daughter who I think I might have tracked…
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Editor Evelyn Larson Hudson
Yesterday I learned about another significant women’s page editor. Below is part of her obituary:“Evelyn Larson Hudson, a former South Bend Tribune editor and columnist, died Saturday in Naples, Fla. Then known as Evelyn Larson, she served on the Tribune’s staff for 25 years, until she retired in 1989. Hudson joined The Tribune in 1964 as a writer for the society pages, which focused on weddings, social events and other news deemed primarily of interest to homemakers. After becoming the department editor in 1970, she led the change to the Living Today section, which included lengthy articles about lifestyle issues and topics of interest to working women.” This was the…
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Congratulations to the Texas A&M Women’s Team
Congratulations to the Texas A & M Women’s Basketball Team – the 2011 NCAA Champions! This is a good time to remember of how far Texas A & M has come – after all, women were not fully accepted as students until 1971. Dallas women’s page editor Vivian Castleberry oversaw the women’s section of the student newspaper at Texas A & M while her husband Curtis was going to school there in the 1950s. Vivian became the women’s editor of the student paper because there were no male students but plenty of wives. When Vivian spoke to the university president, he told her the school would never accept women as…
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Creation of the Association of Food Journalists
On an October night in 1971, a group of food editors gathered in the hotel room of Milwaukee Journal food editor Peggy Daum. The women were in Chicago for the annual Newspaper Food Editors Conference. The American Association of Newspaper Representatives – along with food businesses such as the American Meat Institute – began hosting the conferences in 1943. The week-long event included sessions that were a mix of promotions of new food products, along with the discussion of food policies. Daum and the other food editors had just listened to Utah Senator Frank Moss criticize their profession. He had charged them with being nothing more than shills for food…
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Cooking Up a Storm
I just started reading this great cookbook, Cooking Up a Storm. Here is the NYT review of the book. I like this description:“THE notion of keeping a file of recipes clipped from a newspaper seems a quaint but fading pursuit. Still, those flimsy reflections of the way a family, and a community, cooks have a value beyond the dishes themselves. That lesson was never clearer than after Hurricane Katrina, when 80 percent of New Orleans was flooded. Among the household items whose loss was felt most painfully were recipe collections. About two months after the storm, Judy Walker, the food editor of The Times-Picayune, got back to the business of…
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AEJMC papers
I have submitted two papers to AEJMC today. One of the papers continues my work in the area of food journalism, focusing on ethics. The second paper looks at women’s page journalists who rose through the ranks to newspaper management – three female “firsts.”
A website devoted to the history of newspaper women's pages
