Florida food
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Miami Herald’s For and About Better Living, 1954
I loved finding this 1954 clip of the Miami Herald featuring food editor Jeanne Voltz. Interesting that the name sounds like a lifestyle section in the 1950s.
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2018 Florida Historical Society Meeting
The dates and location for the 2018 Florida Historical Society Meeting have been announced. I plan to speak about the women’s pages of the Miami Herald – including Marie Anderson, Dorothy Jurney, Jeanne Voltz, Marjorie Paxson and Eleanor Hart.
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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society Conference
We had a great time at the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society Conference this past weekend at Daytona Beach – out third conference in 4 weeks. I spoke about her cookbook, Cross Creek Cookery, which is celebrating its 75 anniversary. I plan to write it up as a formal journal paper this summer.
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Women’s History Month: Day 18 & Ruth Gray
Day 18 of Women’s History Month features food editor Ruth Gray. Ruth Gray became the food editor in 1963 of the St. Petersburg Times and began reviewing restaurants in 1974. One restaurant that earned a negative review named their crab sandwich in her honor. She earned a bachelor’s degree in home economics from Kansas State University. She married and raised a daughter. When she was investigating a restaurant, Gray wore hats and scarves and ducked inside the ladies room to take notes and remain inconspicuous. The disguises were needed because some restaurants posted her photo on the wall in the kitchen—a common practice because restaurant owners looked to identify critics.…
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Women’s History Month: Day 17 & Lowis Carlton
The day 17 post for Women’s History Month features Florida women’s page journalist Lowis Carlton. She was the food editor at the Miami Herald in the 1970s. This image is from her tenure at the Herald – Lowis Carlton. She had a background in both journalism and home economics. She also wrote several Florida cookbooks. I am including her in the book I am writing about Miami food history.
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Women’s History Month: Day 15 & Virginia Heffington
Day 15 of Women’s History Month features Virginia Heffington – a food editor in Florida and later California. Recently, the Miami Herald cited a recipe from its 1960s food editor Virginia Heffington. This is the book that Heffington wrote in 1968 when she was the Homemaking Editor of the Miami Herald. At that point she had been at the Herald for five years and had won a Vesta Award – the top recognition for food journalism. In the introduction to the book, she mentioned that she was a graduate of Iowa State in home economic journalism. I also found an archive in Canada that had ten of Virginia’s clips in…
