culinary history
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Second Helping Cookbook
I recently received a copy of the Second Helping Cookbook – a publication of the Women’s National Press Club. It was a follow up to the group’s earlier book, Who Says We Can’t Cook! It was so popular that the initial 5,000 cookbooks were sold in the first week. Included in the Editorial Committee for the second cookbook (published in 1962) was Washington Post women’s page editor Marie Sauer.
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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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