Cecily Brownstone
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Green Bean Casserole & Food Editor Cecily Brownstone
Cecily Brownstone was the longtime food editor at the Associated Press who is include in The Food Section: Newspaper Women and the Culinary Community. I think of her every Thanksgiving because of her connection to the green bean casserole. According to a 2007 post from Saveur magazine:“It wasn’t until 1955, however, that the dish’s most steadfast incarnation entered the scene. This enduring formula, one that many home cooks still use, called for a trinity of convenience products: canned Durkee or French’s fried onions, Green Giant canned green beans, and Campbell’s condensed cream of mushroom soup, usually accompanied by milk, soy sauce, and a dash of pepper. It was invented by…
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Cecily Brownstone, Thanksgiving & the Green Bean Casserole
Cecily Brownstone was the longtime food editor at the Associated Press who is included in The Food Section: Newspaper Women and the Culinary Community. I think of her every Thanksgiving because of her connection to the green bean casserole. We are celebrating Thanksgiving early this year since we will spend the holiday at the beach. According to a 2007 post from Saveur magazine:“It wasn’t until 1955, however, that the dish’s most steadfast incarnation entered the scene. This enduring formula, one that many home cooks still use, called for a trinity of convenience products: canned Durkee or French’s fried onions, Green Giant canned green beans, and Campbell’s condensed cream of mushroom…
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Repost: Cecily Brownstone & the Green Bean Casserole
Cecily Brownstone was the longtime food editor at the Associated Press who is include in The Food Section: Newspaper Women and the Culinary Community. I think of her every Thanksgiving because of her connection to the green bean casserole. According to a 2007 post from Saveur magazine:“It wasn’t until 1955, however, that the dish’s most steadfast incarnation entered the scene. This enduring formula, one that many home cooks still use, called for a trinity of convenience products: canned Durkee or French’s fried onions, Green Giant canned green beans, and Campbell’s condensed cream of mushroom soup, usually accompanied by milk, soy sauce, and a dash of pepper. It was invented by…
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- Cecily Brownstone, food editors, food history, food journalism, James Beard, Jane Nickerson, New York Times food
NYFoodStory: It All Began With Jane Nickerson
I was excited to get my copy of the 2014 NYFoodStory in the mail today. It is the journal of the Culinary Historians of New York. In the journal, I wrote an article about the beginning of the New York City food community. As the longtime Associated Press food editor Cecily Brownstone said in her oral history: It all began with Jane Nickerson at the New York Times. Jane, Cecily, James Beard and Jane’s future husband explored the New York City food community together in the late 1940s and early 1950s. They were the original NYC foodies. I am working on an analysis of her work from 1942 to 1957.…
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Green Bean Casserole & Food Editor Cecily Brownstone
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Cecily Brownstone & the Green Bean Casserole
Cecily Brownstone was the longtime food editor at the Associated Press who is include in The Food Section: Newspaper Women and the Culinary Community. I think of her every Thanksgiving because of her connection to the green bean casserole. According to a 2007 post from Saveur magazine:“It wasn’t until 1955, however, that the dish’s most steadfast incarnation entered the scene. This enduring formula, one that many home cooks still use, called for a trinity of convenience products: canned Durkee or French’s fried onions, Green Giant canned green beans, and Campbell’s condensed cream of mushroom soup, usually accompanied by milk, soy sauce, and a dash of pepper. It was invented by…
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Green Bean Casserole & Food Editor Cecily Brownstone
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James Beard & Female Newspaper Food Editors
This photo was posted on the Fales’ library’s Facebook wall. This is the caption: James Beard, Irma Rombauer, Cecily Brownstone, Clementine Paddleford and other guests at Cecily’s Jane Street home in the 1940s. It is likely that James Beard would be saddened how much his story has overshadowed the women he surrounded himself with during his career. The women who promoted his career and kept his counsel, such as Jane Nickerson and Cecily Brownstone, have been marginalized in culinary history. As Beard’s biographer, Evan Jones, wrote: “Jim was not a heterosexual, but he was a ladies’ man, and he earned deep affection from women of his own and other persuasions.”…
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