Eudora Garrison
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New Dorothy Jurney letter
I am back to working on my women and politics book that focuses on several women’s page editors, including Marjorie Paxson, Marie Anderson, Vera Glaser and Dorothy Jurney. In my research, I came across a great letter to women’s page editor Dorothy Jurney from food editor Eudora Garrison. It can be found in Jurney’s papers in the National Women & Media Collection. Dorothy was the women’s page editor at the Miami Herald in the 1950s when she was asked to go to the Charlotte Observer for a few weeks to help improve the women’s pages at that newspaper. Eudora was the food editor at the time. Eudora wrote to Dorothy…
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Great Column About The Food Section
I enjoyed this great column about The Food Section which ran today.
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Eudora Garrison & Recognizing Food Editors
The work of newspapers food editors has long been devalued – especially those who wrote in the 1950s and 1960s. In the book The United States of Arugula, David Kamp refers to them dismissively as the “Jello-abusing women’s page ladies.” What is interesting is how often I now see the recipes of these women cited. For example, 1950s Charlotte Observer food editor Eudora Garrison’s recipe for a chicken salad sandwich was cited in Oprah Magazine. This blog cited one of Garrison’s cake recipes.
