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Culinary Historians Present “The Old Girl Network”
I was excited to see this upcoming talk by the Culinary Historians of Southern California: “”The Old Girl Network: Charity Cookbooks and the Empowerment of Women.” This is the lead to the blog post about the talk: “Bra burning, Rosie the Riveter, even the Pill: all these are symbols that come to mind when we think of women’s lib. But cookbooks? We didn’t realize they were on the list. However an upcoming event hosted by the Culinary Historians of Southern California will change all that.” As the Culinary Historians further explain it, “These cookbooks demonstrate how women worked together to help themselves, other women and the outside world. They championed…
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Marian Christy and fashion reporting
I have been reading this book, Invasions of Privacy: Notes From A Celebrity Journalist by Marian Christy. Before Christy became a celebrity journalist, she was a fashion reporter at the Boston Globe. In that position, she won three Penney-Missouri Awards for fashion writing – in 1966, 1968 and 1970. This is how she described going to the Award ceremony: “The late Professor Paul Myhre told me that I had set new standards of fashion journalism by making daring and dazzling comments on social pretentions and he said, ‘trailed fashion first behind me like gold confetti.’ It was heady stuff.” Her book also explained more about fashion reporting in the 1960s…
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Fort Lauderdale turns 100
Yesterday, USA Today featured a story about Fort Lauderdale turning 100 this year. We will be traveling there in April for a history conference. For many years, the city’s main newspaper was the Fort Lauderdale News. In the 1960s, its women’s page editor was the wonderful Edee Greene. She won numerous Penney-Missouri Awards for her progressive section and was a founding member of the city’s domestic violence shelter. She was also quite funny. She wrote a humor column and her letters are witty. (Her letters can be found in the Penney-Missouri papers at the University of Missouri.)
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Women’s Page Editor Jane Clark
Yesterday, I came across the obituary of Jane Clark who was a St. Louis women’s page editor. According to her obit: “She joined the staff of the Globe-Democrat as a feature writer in 1959 and later that year was named women’s editor for that St. Louis newspaper. Her responsibilities included the development of a women’s section for both the daily and weekend editions as well as supervising coverage of semiannual fashion shows, the annual Women of Achievement Award Luncheon and other specialevents and topics of interest to women. During that time, she won numerous awards from state and national organizations for her feature-writing. She was named an instructor in the…
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The United States of Arugula
I have been reading the book, The United States of Arugula, which is about the Food Revolution. Chapter three of this book, The Food Establishment, Part I, addresses the usual suspects in food history – James Beard, Craig Claiborne and Julia Child. Yet, it also includes names that are often forgotten in the story of food journalism: Jane Nickerson, who was the food editor prior to Caliborne at the New York Times, and Cecily Brownstone of the Associated Press. This information will be a great addition to my work on food journalism in the women’s pages of newspapers.
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Icons of American Cooking book chapter
My book chapter (along with Victor W. Geraci) in the Icons of American Cooking has been published. I just received it in the mail. In the chapter about James Beard, I included an article that Los Angeles Times food editor Jeanne Voltz wrote about the food great. I am revising an article about Voltz and her influence in the food journalism in the women’s pages.
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