Thanks to the Informal Association of Cookbook Collectors & Foodists, I learned about food editor Alice Partridge. Here is some information from her obituary beginning with her World War II experiences: “She came to Buffalo to work for the Associated Press and starting as assistant day editor, became night editor, swing editor for the correspondent and acting correspondent in charge of the bureau. She was always proud that she was the first woman to be in charge of an AP office anywhere in the U.S. “The scarcity of men in wartime gave women a foot in the door,” she once said. After her marriage to Charles Alden Partridge, a veteran…