food editors
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Food Editor Nadine Bradley
I just found this great 1938 story about Nadine Bradley who was the food editor at the Omaha World-Herald. In the article, it is noted that Bradley had a degree from the University of Missouri and had already been a reporter for 13 years. More than 200,000 women read her column. The story was due to Bradley being in Miami with her husband for a visit. She likely hired Maude Coons who I wrote about in my book about food editors.
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New Discovery: Ruth Gorrell is Ruth Gray
My thanks to Carol DeMasters for helping me to solve a food journalism mystery. As I had suspected, food editor Ruth Gorrell was also Ruth Gray. I could not find a wedding announcement and there was no reference to a maiden name in Ruth Gray’s obituary. Ruth Gorrell earned a bachelor’s degree in home economics from Kansas State University. She was the food editor at the Detroit Times in the early 1950s and later at the St. Petersburg Times. Her recipes are included in the 1952 Coast to Coast cookbook and she attended the annual food editors meetings. As Ruth Gray, she began reviewing restaurants in 1974. One restaurant that…
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Our Gatronomica Article Is Out
Our article about newspaper food sections and journalism is out. Our investigation looked at the accusations against food editors by Senator Frank Moss and found them baseless. It also highlights the work of food journalists Peggy Daum, at the Milwaukee Journal, and Ruth Gray, of the St. Pete Times, as well as the creation of what is now called the Association of Food Journalists. Here is a link to it.
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Top Food Editors: Day 30 & Virgnia Heffington
Day 30 of Top Food Editors features Virginia Heffington – a food editor in Florida and California. Recently, the Miami Herald cited a recipe from its 1960s food editor Virginia Heffington. Above 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 its…
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Writing Women into the Curriculum
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Top Food Editors: Day 29 & Dorothy Chapman
Day 29 of Top Food Editors features Dorothy Chapman. She had been the women’s page editor at the Orlando Sentinel when Barr was the food editor. When Barr retired in 1969, Chapman became the food editor. In 1971, Chapman became the first restaurant editor at the newspaper. She wrote several cookbooks based on her column, “Thought You’d Never Ask.” According to her obituary: “As the Orlando Sentinel’s first restaurant critic, Chapman wielded her pen and fork with a civil tongue. “We [chefs] gave her a lot of respect because she gave us a lot of respect,” said longtime Orlando restaurateur Major Jarman. “She was fair. Everyone took her comments as…
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Top Food Editors: Day 28 & Grace Barr
Day 28 of Top Food Editors features Orlando Sentinel food editor Grace Warlow Barr. I attended Goucher College in Baltimore before marrying Leal Barr. The couple had twins: Gracia and Graham. They divorced in 1936 and she joined the Sentinel in 1940 to support her family. She initially became the society editor with a column called “Cynthia’s Tea Table Chatter.” The column ended in 1964 and she focused on food. She was the food editor until her retirement in 1969. Her cookbook, Cooking with Grace, was published in 1970. She was known for her recipes that began with “start with a stick of butter.” She had an active social life…
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