Florida history
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Florida Food History Talk in Gainesville
Peggy has begun publicity for my upcoming talk in Gainesville. A Facebook event is available here. Florida Food in the Women’s Pages: Restaurants, Home Cooks and Recipe Exchanges in the 1950s and 1960sSaturday, June 27 from 2:30-3:30 p.m. The 1950s and the 1960s have been described as the “Golden Era” for the women’s pages of newspapers. UCF professor Kimberly Wilmot Voss shares the stories of the women who made Florida the capital of food culture. She is the author of The Food Section and the coauthor of Mad Men and Working Women. It is part of the Museum’s Florida Global Kitchen project that takes place from Monday, May 18 through…
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Talking About Florida Food Editors
Excited to announce that I will be speaking about the Florida food editors who are in my book, The Food Section, this summer. In June, I will be speaking each Friday in June at Rollins College in Winter Park as part of the Lifelong Learning program. More information is available here. At the end of June, I will be speaking at the Matheson History Museum in Gainesville as part of the Florida’s Global Kitchen program. Here is the description: Florida Food in the Women’s Pages: Restaurants, Home Cooks and Recipe Exchanges in the 1950s and 1960s Saturday, June 27 at 2:30 p.m. $5 per person The 1950s and the 1960s…
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Florida Conference of Historians: Helen Muir
FCH.Miami Maven Helen Muir. 2015 from Kimberly Voss Today’s presentation at the Florida Conference of Historians is about Miami journalist Helen Muir.
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I have been working on my paper for the Florida Conference of Historians about the Tampa Junior League and its publication, The Gasparilla Cookbook. The conference is less than 2 weeks away. First published in 1961, the cookbook has been a big success. After many reprintings, it celebrated its 50th birthday in 2011. Part of the success has been because of the coverage by newspaper food editor Clementine Paddleford. She did not typically write about cookbooks so this story was unique. Thanks to the archivist at Kansas State University who helped me find it.
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Helen Muir’s Miami Tea Parties
I am working on one of my papers for the 2015 Florida Conference of Historians that I will be presenting next month in Lakeland. It’s called “Miami Maven Helen Muir: Writer, Historian, Advocate & Tea Party Host.” I went through Muir’s papers at the University of Miami a few years ago. Muir held annual tea parties for her friends who sometimes came from across the country to reunite. In this photo are women’s page journalists Marie Anderson and Dorothy Jurney.
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My Pinellas County Talk: Florida’s Food Editors
I am excited to talk about the Florida food editors from my book, The Food Section, in Pinellas County next Sunday as part of its Speaking of History lecture series. I will be speaking about some of my favorite food journalists: Jane Nickerson, Jeanne Voltz & Ruth Gray
