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Food editors ponder food in the future
I am continuing to collect information about the history of the Newspaper Food Editors and Writers Association. I came across this article about their 1978 meeting. At the gathering, speakers focused on the future of food. This is the lead: “Science fiction generally paints a bleak picture of food in the year 2001: daily doses of little red vitamin pills and tasteless chemical mixtures, or diets of sautéed mealworms, crunchy crickets and vegetable-protein concoctions.” I am planning a conference paper about the group and food editors Peggy Daum and Ann Hamman. Understanding the food sections adds to journalism and culinary history.
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Food Editor Katie Carlson – “Martha Stewart before there was Martha Stewart”
I came across the story of Katie Carlson yesterday while researching the history of the Association of Food Journalists, Inc., (formerly the Newspaper Food Editors and Writers Association, Inc.). Katie was an officer in the organization in the 1970s. Carlson started as food editor of the Daytona Beach News-Journal in 1971 and was promoted to women’s editor in 1977.Her food pages won first place in the national Vesta awards competition for three consecutive years starting in 1973. I loved this quote from her obituary: “She was Martha Stewart before there was Martha Stewart,” said Carlson’s daughter, Susan Wright of Ormond Beach.” I am planning on writing more about these food…
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Clementine Paddleford: First U.S. Food Journalist
I just came across information about Clementine Paddleford – considered America’s food journalist. A book was recently written about her (Hometown Appetites: The Story of Clementine Paddleford, the Forgotten Food Writer Who Chronicled How America Ate) and there was a panel about her life at the New School. Here was the description: “Clementine Paddleford was the first American journalist to take food seriously. In her legendary columns for the New York Herald Tribune and This Week Magazine, she pioneered a smart, sassy reporting style that managed to elevate food writing from the dull formulas of home economists to must-read material. Flying around the country, sometimes in a Piper Cub plane,…
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Swearing & excluding women
Today, NPR featured this story about swearing – although completely ignored the question of gender. (Being the one who can use curse words is really an issue of power.) This was something that was an issue for women journalists in the 1950s and 1960s. Curse words were a common reason given for excluding women from the newsroom. Detroit and Miami women’s page journalist Roberta Applegate provided this anecdote when she covered the Michigan governor for the Associated Press during World War II:Applegate recalled that while visiting with the reporters, the governor would often mutter “hell” or “damn” under his breath, and then apologized to her. Eventually he said to her,…
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Milwaukee Press Club article digitized
The Wisconsin Magazine of History has digitized the article Lance & I wrote about the fight of Milwaukee journalists (including women’s page editor Aileen Ryan) to join the Milwaukee Press Club: Wilmot Voss, Kimberly; Speere, Lance “Way past deadline: the women’s fight to integrate the Milwaukee Press Club” “In this article, Kimberly Wilmot Voss and Lance Speere explore the fight by female journalists to enter the male-only Milwaukee Press Club beginning in 1966. Voss and Speere examine how the women’s protests to enter Milwaukee’s Press Club became symbolic of the larger women’s fight for equality occurring across the country in the 1960s. The article also describes some of Milwaukee’s pioneering…
A website devoted to the history of newspaper women's pages
