food history
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Providing Context for Craig Claiborne
News about the new food editor at the New York Times has led to many mentions of the late NYT food editor Craig Claiborne yesterday. While Claiborne was certainly significant, his fame has overshadowed Jane Nickerson who was the first food editor at the New York Times. It was a concept I explored in The Food Section. With Jane’s exclusion in mind, I was so happy when Anne Mendelson contacted me about an essay she wrote which detailed the work of the Jane and the other NYT female food journalists who came before Claiborne. It is wonderfully written and provides great context for the NYC food foundation that Jane and…
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AEJMC Poster Session About Food Journalism
I will be talking about the women of newspaper food journalism from the 1950s and 1960s at an AEJMC poster session in Montreal. Lance designed this cool header.
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The Food Section is now on Tumblr
The Food Section is now on Tumblr. Take a look!
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Food Editor Alice Partridge
Thanks to the Informal Association of Cookbook Collectors & Foodists, I learned about food editor Alice Partridge. Here is some information from her obituary beginning with her World War II experiences: “She came to Buffalo to work for the Associated Press and starting as assistant day editor, became night editor, swing editor for the correspondent and acting correspondent in charge of the bureau. She was always proud that she was the first woman to be in charge of an AP office anywhere in the U.S. “The scarcity of men in wartime gave women a foot in the door,” she once said. After her marriage to Charles Alden Partridge, a veteran…
- food editors, food history, food journalism, Jane Nickerson, Peggy Daum, Rosa Tusa, Ruth Ellen Church
Great Column About The Food Section
I loved this wonderful article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel about The Food Section. I also loved this image of Milwaukee Sentinel food editor Rosa Tusa.
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Review of The Food Section
I was pleased with this review of The Food Section in Publishers Weekly. Looking forward to speaking about the book in Milwaukee and Chicago this week.