Carol McCready Hartley
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Women’s History Month: Carol McCready Hartley
Day eight of Women’s History Month features Arizona food editor – Carol McCready Hartley. Hartley graduated from Iowa State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in home economics, focusing on textiles. She was a member of Pi Beta Phi sorority. Her first job was in Chicago, at Carson Pirie Scott, the city’s second largest department store, as a member of the Fashion Board, staging style shows throughout Chicago and North Shore suburbs. She married Richard H. Voshall in 1955. The couple divorced in 1961. She moved from Chicago to Phoenix, Arizona in 1961, and went to work for Phoenix Newspapers, Inc., the following year. She became the first food…
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My First Cooking Contest
I just registered for my first cooking contest. I am making salsa for the Avalon Park Chili Cook Off. Newspaper food editors were often the judges of local and national cooking competition. In 1968, there were 150 food editors—of both newspaper and magazine writers—who attended the Pillbury Bake Off. Another ten food editors would actually judge the finalists, including Benet of the San Francisco Chronicle and Volpe of the Pittsburgh Press. As in previous meetings, this meant a chance to advertisers to share their products or technologies and a chance for the editors to learn about local foods among the intended propaganda. The women learned about new General Electric products…
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Top Food Editors: Day Four & Carol McCready Hartley
Day 4 of Top Food Editor features Arizona food editor – Carol McCready Hartley. Hartley graduated from Iowa State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in home economics, focusing on textiles. She was a member of Pi Beta Phi sorority. Her first job was in Chicago, at Carson Pirie Scott, the city’s second largest department store, as a member of the Fashion Board, staging style shows throughout Chicago and North Shore suburbs. She married Richard H. Voshall in 1955. The couple divorced in 1961. She moved from Chicago to Phoenix, Arizona in 1961, and went to work for Phoenix Newspapers, Inc., the following year. She became the first food…
- Carol McCready Hartley, food history, food journalism, journalism history, women's history month, women's page history
Women’s History Month: Carol McCready Hartley
Day 12 of Women’s History Month features another Arizona food editor – Carol McCready Hartley. Hartley graduated from Iowa State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in home economics, focusing on textiles. She was a member of Pi Beta Phi sorority. Her first job was in Chicago, at Carson Pirie Scott, the city’s second largest department store, as a member of the Fashion Board, staging style shows throughout Chicago and North Shore suburbs. She married Richard H. Voshall in 1955. The couple divorced in 1961. She moved from Chicago to Phoenix, Arizona in 1961, and went to work for Phoenix Newspapers, Inc., the following year. She became the first…
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Media’s Coverage of the Pillbury Bake-Off
This is great background for the book chapter I am writing about the intersection between food advertisers and food editors. The Pillsbury Bake-Off was often newsworthy but some editors were worried about offering free advertising. For example, in 1971, at the Louisville Courier Journal, the editor noted that the $25,000 prize at the time made the Pillsbury Bake-off newsworthy. Yet, the newspaper did not want to provide free publicity so the name “Pillsbury” was not used in the story. Interestingly, the statement was made at a food editors conference that Pillsbury sponsored. Here is a story about it. New York Times’ food editor Jane Nickerson wrote about the first Pillsbury…
