Cecily Brownstone
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New York Culinary Community of Jane Nickerson, Cecily Brownstone & James Beard
Here is a link to my blog post for Rowman & Littlefield about the New York City Food Community in the 1950s. The Food Section will be out at the end of the month.
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Women’s History Month: Cecily Brownstone
Day 13 of Women’s History Month features Cecily Brownstone – the longtime food editor at the Associated Press. She had daily recipes and a weekly column from 1947 to 1986. She was a close friend and confident of James Beard who spoke on the phone almost daily, at 8 a.m. New York Times food columnist Molly O’Neil called Brownstone one of the “cornerstones of authentic cooking in New York.” Upon Brownstone’s retirement, former New York Times Food Editor Jane Nickerson wrote: “Of syndicated food writers, she’s been the most widely read.” Her papers are at the Fales Library at NYU. This images – from a dinner party at her brownstone…
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Jello-O Abusers & Nicey-Nice Lady Food Journalists
Caption: Miami Herald and Los Angeles Times food editor Jeanne Voltz In his classic book about food history, The United States of Arugula, David Kamp described the newspaper food editors as “Jello-O abusers” and as “nicey-nice lady food journalists.” There were certainly some editors who did fit the description of nice. The St. Petersburg Times’ Ruth Gray, for example, felt so badly about writing a negative restaurant review that she would leave town for a few days after it was published. Yet other editors were not quite so concerned about kindness. Brownstone said about herself: “Someone told me I was bitchy. I could be bitchy occasionally.” Charlotte Observer food editor…
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New York City Culinary Conversation of James Beard, Jane Nickerson, and Cecily Brownstone
My article “Dining Out: New York City Culinary Conversation of James Beard, Jane Nickerson, and Cecily Brownstone,” has been accepted for publication in NYFoodStory which is produced by the Culinary Historians of New York. In the late 1940s and for much of the 1950s, Jane Nickerson was the food editor of the New York Times . Although she has been largely overshadowed by Craig Claiborne, she was a formidable force in the New York food community. She reviewed many of the city’s restaurants, up to 21,000 in 1949. Often, her dinner companions were food writers James Beard and Cecily Brownstone. In fact, Nickerson introduced the culinary pair who would speak…
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Top Food Editors: Day Six & Cecily Brownstone
Day six of top newspaper food editors features Cecily Brownstone – the longtime food editor at the Associated Press. She had daily recipes and a weekly column from 1947 to 1986. She was a close friend and confident of James Beard who spoke on the phone almost daily, at 8 a.m. New York Times food columnist Molly O’Neil called Brownstone one of the “cornerstones of authentic cooking in New York.” Upon Brownstone’s retirement, former New York Times Food Editor Jane Nickerson wrote: “Of syndicated food writers, she’s been the most widely read.” Her papers are at the Fales Library at NYU. This images – from a dinner party at her…
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Women’s History Month: Cecily Brownstone
Day 26 of Women’s History month feature food writer Cecily Brownstone – her food columns ran in newspapers across the country. She has been described as “the ad hoc matriarch of James Beard’s culinary salon” and a “cuisine maven.” While she has been largely overshadowed by culinary writers like Beard and Craig Claiborne, she had a broad reach in her food journalism in her nearly four decade career. Brownstone wrote about food for the Associated Press from 1947 until she retired in 1986. Brownstone wrote two columns about cuisine and five recipes a week for the national wire service for an estimated 14,200 articles during her career. She explored changes…
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