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Women’s History Month: Jeanne Voltz
Day one of Women’s History Month features the first food editor I ever studied: Miami Herald & Los Angeles Times food editor Jeanne Voltz. I will be blogging about a different food editor from my book, The Food Section, each day this month. Like several other food editors, Voltz wrote cookbooks – including one of my favorites, The Florida Cookbook. Today, Voltz’s recipe for Green Corn Tamales can be found on the Food Network website with a note giving credit to her acclaimed book, Barbecued Ribs, Smoked Butts, and Other Great Feeds. James Beard, a well-known name in food and a contemporary of Julia Child, wrote of the book, “Jeanne…
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FCH: Jim Bellows, Lee Hills & Al Neuharth
Florida Conference of Historians, 2014 from Kimberly Voss
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Top Food Editors: Day 23 & Jeanne Voltz
Day 23 of Top Food Editors features Jeanne Voltz. Jeanne Voltz earned a journalism degree from what is now the University of Montevallo. She worked the news beat during World War II and got married to a fellow journalist. She then became the food editor at the Miami Herald in the 1950s and at the Los Angeles Times in the 1960s through the early 1970s. She later became the food editor at Woman’s Day magazine. She wrote many cookbooks and was considered an expert on BBQ and Southern cooking. She was married for most of her career and raised two children. She published many cookbooks – several of which are…
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Top Food Editors: Day 16 & Ruth Gray
Day 16 of Top Food Editors features 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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Top Food Editors: Day 14 and Rosa Tusa
Day 14 of Top Food editor highlights Rosa Tusa – from Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Palm Beach, Florida. Rosa Tulsa learned to cook from her Italian father and was hired by the Milwaukee Sentinel’s women’s pages in 1953. She became the Sentinel food editor in 1962. She married painter Kyril Vassilev after meeting when Tusa interviewed him for a story. The couple lived in a castle and raised Great Danes. She was a good friend of Poppy Cannon and judged the 1970 Pillsbury Bake-Off. In 1971, she and her husband moved to Florida and she became the food editor of the Palm Beach Post. During her career, she attempted to cook…
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1960s Miami Herald Food Editor Lowis Carlton
Yesterday, I came across a new food editor: Lowis Carlton. I discovered her name in a cookbook I recently bought, Famous Florida Recipes. She had a bachelor’s and master’s degree in English from the University of Miami. She also had a bachelor’s degree in home economics from Florida International University. Like many of the top newspaper food editors of the 1950s and 1960s, she earned a Vesta Award and was a judge for the Pillsbury Bake-Off. She appears to have been the Miami Herald food editor after Jeanne Voltz left for the Los Angeles Times in 1960. By the late 1960s, the Miami Herald food editor was Virginia Heffington.
