food editors
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History of Sugar
Yesterday, I was lucky enough to hear the wonderful talk “America’s Sweet Tooth” about the history of sugar by food historian Francine Segan. It was a great mix of facts and anecdotes, along with some interesting ads. It really helped to confirm many of the areas I have researched for my book about the history of newspaper food editors. When it came to sugar, several of the newspaper food editors noted that readers never seemed to tire of recipes for cakes. The New York Herald Tribune food editor Clementine Paddleford helped her home cooks deal with the challenges of World War II and the limits on sugar. She encouraged her…
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Food Studies Presentation: Ohio Food Editor History
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Women’s History Month: Cecily Brownstone
Day 26 of Women’s History month feature food writer Cecily Brownstone – her food columns ran in newspapers across the country. She has been described as “the ad hoc matriarch of James Beard’s culinary salon” and a “cuisine maven.” While she has been largely overshadowed by culinary writers like Beard and Craig Claiborne, she had a broad reach in her food journalism in her nearly four decade career. Brownstone wrote about food for the Associated Press from 1947 until she retired in 1986. Brownstone wrote two columns about cuisine and five recipes a week for the national wire service for an estimated 14,200 articles during her career. She explored changes…
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Green Bean Casserole & Food Editor Cecily Brownstone
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Women’s History Month: Ruth Ellen Church
Day 25 of Women’s History Month features the Chicago Tribune’s Ruth Ellen Church (who often used the byline Mary Meade). She was the food editor from 1936 to 1974. She graduated from Iowa State University in 1933 with a degree in food and nutrition journalism. She guided the development of The Tribune’s test kitchen, one of the first at a newspaper, and in 1962 became the first American writing a regular wine column. She won six Vesta Awards – the top recognition for food sections. In 1948, Church introduced the recipe feature “Cake of the Week.” Church was quoted: “My staff and I have known for a long time that…
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Food Studies Presentation: Ohio Food Editor History
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Women’s History Month: Peggy Daum
Day 19 of Women’s History Month features another Milwaukee Journal women’s page journalist: Peggy Daum. Peggy was a women’s page reporter in the 1950s and 1960s. She became the food editor of the section in 1968 and remained in the position for two decades. Daum had a strong journalism background that she applied to her beat – food. Barbara Dembski, the Milwaukee Journal’s assistant managing editor of features, said Daum never abandoned her audience. She said of Daum: “Despite her national stature in food journalism, she never forgot who her section was for. She wrote it for the typical, salt-of-the-earth, best cook on the block.” And those neighborhood cooks, her…
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Great Image of Food Editor Jeanne Voltz
I love this great image of Food Editor Jeanne Voltz. She is getting ready to fly with USN Blue Angels, Miami, 1956. I noticed the image on her daughter Jeanne’s Facebook page and I appreciate her letting me use it. In the 1950s, Jeanne Voltz was the food editor at the Miami Herald before moving on to the Los Angeles Times in 1960. Here is how she is described in her obituary: “She was one of the first newspaper food editors of the modern era, when the sections were edited by journalists rather than by the advertising department.” There has been an over generalization that food journalism was run by…
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Writing Women into the Curriculum
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Julia Child Speaks to Food Editors
I just came across this great image of Julia Child. She is speaking on taking the mystery out of fine French seafood cookery, in New York, October 5, 1964, before the Newspaper Food Editors Conference, under the sponsorship of the National Fisheries Institute. It is available in Child’s papers at the Schlesinger Library. Here is the link. Here is a link to a story about Julia written by one of the newspaper food journalists that I am beginning to collect information about: Katie Carlson. Carlson was the longtime food editor at the Daytona Beach Morning Journal. Here is my earlier post about her that described Carlson as “Martha Stewart before…
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