Florida Women's Pages
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Florida Historical Society: Florida Feminist Roxcy Bolton
I am excited to present a paper about Florida feminist Roxcy Bolton this weekend at the 2015 Florida Historical Society’s Annual Meeting in St. Augustine. Roxcy was a good friend of Marie Anderson, the longtime and award-winning women’s page editor of the Miami Herald. Here is my blog post about Roxcy for Ms Magazine & here is my blog post for We’re 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: The Gasparilla Cookbook
FCH.gasparilla cookbook.presentation from Kimberly Voss Today I am presenting a paper about The Gasparilla Cookbook and food editor Clementine Paddleford at the Florida Conference of Historians.
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The Food Section: Orlando Weekly Review
Very happy to see The Food Section made the Orlando Weekly’s list. Thanks Jessica Bryce Young!
- Florida food, Florida history, Florida newspapers, Florida Women's Pages, Jane Nickerson, Jeanne Voltz, ruth gorrell, ruth gray
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