food history
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Food Studies Presentation: Ohio Food Editor History
I was happy to get an acceptance for presentation about Ohio food editors for the 2020 Food Studies Conference. The Golden Era of Newspaper Food Journalism Questions about cooking? Lost a cherished recipe? Planning a holiday menu? For decades, it was the newspaper food editor who answered these questions from readers. The newspaper food editors were important to their communities as they wrote about food trends, popular recipes, and local restaurants. The readers responded with calls and letters to the food section. Prior to the early 1970, these popular editors were almost always female and typically had a background in journalism and home economics. Food sections began in the women’s…
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Quoted in MyRecipes Article
I was happy to be quoted in this MyRecipes article about gender and culinary history.
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Food Studies Presentation: Ohio Food Editor History
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Mad Men Cookbook Post
I was happy to be a source for this post from the author of the Unofficial Mad Men Cookbook. It combines my favorite research interests: Mad Men and newspaper food editors.
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Food Studies Presentation: Ohio Food Editor History
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Louisville Newspaper Food Editor Cissy Gregg
I was happy to find some potential recipes from Louisville newspaper food editor Cissy Gregg in an archive. She is included in my book, The Food Section, and I hope to write more about her.
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Miami Herald’s For and About Better Living, 1954
I loved finding this 1954 clip of the Miami Herald featuring food editor Jeanne Voltz. Interesting that the name sounds like a lifestyle section in the 1950s.
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Food Columnist Virginia Voigt Roeder Cobb
I have been researching Virginia Voigt Roeder Cobb who had been a food columnist with the Baltimore Sun. This image is from a cookbook which came from the columns. She will be included in my upcoming women’s page editors book. My wonderful ILL folks tracked down her 1959 dissertation from Johns Hopkins University. It’s interesting that she studied the impact of working mothers when she was the mother of four children.
