food editors
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Midwestern Newspaper Food Editors: Ruth Ellen Church/Clarice Rowlands/Peggy Daum
Caption: Chicago Tribune food editor Ruth Ellen Church On May 17th, I will be talking about three food editors from my book, The Food Section, at the Chicago Foodways Roundtable. This is the talk: Midwestern Newspaper Food Editors: Ruth Ellen Church/Clarice Rowlands/Peggy Daum Here is the description:This talk is the story of three significant Midwestern food editors from the 1950s and 1960s. Ruth Ellen Church joined the Chicago Tribune as cooking editor in 1936 and oversaw one of the first test kitchens at a newspaper. She published many cookbooks—several under the pen name of Mary Meade. She remained the food editor until 1974 and became the nation’s first newspaper wine…
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New York Culinary Community of Jane Nickerson, Cecily Brownstone & James Beard
Here is a link to my blog post for Rowman & Littlefield about the New York City Food Community in the 1950s. The Food Section will be out at the end of the month.
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Green Bean Casserole & Food Editor Cecily Brownstone
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Women’s History Month: Lowis Carlton
Day 31 of Women’s History Month features food editor: Lowis Carlton. I discovered her name in a cookbook I 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. She…
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Food Studies Presentation: Ohio Food Editor History
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Women’s History Month: Ruth Gray
Day 30 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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Food Studies Presentation: Ohio Food Editor History
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Women’s History Month: Cecil Fleming
Day 29 of Women’s History Month features Cecil Fleming who was a home economist and a journalist who worked for several newspapers in the 1950s and 1960s. She was married to Quentin Fleming. Cecil Fleming graduated from the University of Washington. She was one of the several “Prudence Penneys” at the Detroit Times, prior to joining the Detroit Free-Press. She was the home economist who answered readers phone calls at the Free-Press. According to food editor Kay Savage, Fleming: “knows why the jelly doesn’t jell and why the meringue weeps.” She went on to the Los Angeles Times and became a food reporter, writing significant nutrition and consumer stories. Cecil…
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Women’s History Month: Mary Hart
Day 28 of Women’s History Month features food editor Mary Hart. The food column “Ask Mary” was written by “Mary Hart,” although her last name wasn’t Hart; it was Sorenson. Sorenson wrote under the pen name “Mary Hart” when she went to work on the women’s pages at the Minneapolis Tribune in 1945, after graduating from the the University of Minnesota. Her name then was Mary Engelhart, and the editors shortened it to Mary Hart, which they copyrighted. They planned to use that name for all the other women who, they assumed, would succeed her — and each other — every few years. (This was not unusual for the time.)…
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