Cecily Brownstone
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Cecily Brownstone & James Beard
I was thrilled to get this Rolodex image in an email from Cecily Brownstone‘s nephew. Cecily was the longtime food editor at the Associated Press. She was a good friend of celebrity chef James Beard. I presented a paper about Cecily at the National Communication Association conference last month.
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Green Bean Casserole & Food Editor Cecily Brownstone
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Newspaper Cookbooks: Day 1
I was pleased to see Marion Nestle’s blog post about the cookbook above that I posted about a few weeks ago. The book includes Cecily Brownstone’s Associated Press Cookbook. The 101 Classic Cookbooks is an excellent resource for both recipes and cookbook history. Each day this week, I am going to blog about the cookbooks that newspaper food editors wrote or edited that I would add to the list. Today, I will address Florida cookbooks. I would add two: Jane Nickerson’s Florida Cookbook and Jeanne Voltz’s The Florida Cookbook: From Gulf Coast Gumbo to Key Lime Pie. Jane’s book was published in 1973 by the University Press of Florida. She…
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Green Bean Casserole & Food Editor Cecily Brownstone
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NCA Presentation About Cecily Brownstone
I finished up the NCA convention yesterday with a presentation about Associated Press food editor Cecily Brownstone. You may not have heard of Cecily but she may be a part of your Thanksgiving dinner menu. This is from a Saveur story about the history of the green bean casserole: “According to Cindy Ayers, the vice president of Campbell’s Kitchens, the recipe was first tested in order to fulfill a request from Cecily Brownstone, the food editor at the Associated Press, who sought help in reproducing a green bean casserole she’d tasted at a press dinner. “We partnered with a lot of writers back then,” Ayers says. “It was a pretty…
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Green Bean Casserole & Food Editor Cecily Brownstone
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101 Classic Cookbooks
I recently received the wonderful 101 Great Cookbooks in the mail. It includes an interesting history of cookbooks along with 501 classic recipe. The book was produced by the Fales Library at New York University. The cookbook collection is largely based on the donation by Cecily Brownstone – the longtime food writer for the Associated Press. In the introduction to the book, the Fales Library Director Marvin Taylor wrote about a meeting he and Marion Nestle had with Cecily: “Cecily was bedridden at the time, but we did get to meet and speak with her. She was a small woman with a sharp mind and quick wit.” (p 13) Cecily…
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Green Bean Casserole & Food Editor Cecily Brownstone
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A Story on Storify About Cecily Brownstone
[View the story “A.P. Food Editor Cecily Brownstone” on Storify]
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History of the Cookbook
I was excited to see this announcement about this new cookbook and this accompanying talk. Here is a review of the cookbook. The cookbook comes from the cookbook collection at the Fales Library at NYU. Much of the collection is the result of the donation from Associated Press food editor Cecily Brownstone – whose recipe column ran in the women’s pages for decades. Brownstone’s work was often overshadowed by hew fellow food writers: James Beard (a close friend) and Craig Claiborne. I am presenting a paper about Brownstone at the National Communication Association convention in November.
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Green Bean Casserole & Food Editor Cecily Brownstone
