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- Carol McCready Hartley, food editors, food history, food journalism, women's history month, women's page history
Women’s History Month: Carol McCready Hartley
Day eight of Women’s History Month features Arizona food editor – Carol McCready Hartley. Hartley graduated from Iowa State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in home economics, focusing on textiles. She was a member of Pi Beta Phi sorority. Her first job was in Chicago, at Carson Pirie Scott, the city’s second largest department store, as a member of the Fashion Board, staging style shows throughout Chicago and North Shore suburbs. She married Richard H. Voshall in 1955. The couple divorced in 1961. She moved from Chicago to Phoenix, Arizona in 1961, and went to work for Phoenix Newspapers, Inc., the following year. She became the first food…
- food editors, food history, food journalism, food section, Helen Dollaghan, women's history month, women's page history
Women’s History Month: Helen Dollaghan
Day seven of Women’s History Month features Helen Dollaghan of the Denver Post. Helen earned a journalism degree from the University of Denver. She was the food editor of the Denver Post from 1958 to 1993, after starting at the newspaper taking classified advertising. She tested recipes in her own kitchen. She was known for breaking ground with on-site food photography such as having photographs taken at the local Squaw Pass. She became known for the recipe Apricot Brandy Chicken when some readers improvised and caused oven doors to be blown off. The cooks who’d had trouble admitted to modifying the recipe by adding extra brandy, then covering the casserole…
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Food Studies Presentation: Ohio Food Editor History
- Eleanor Ostman, food editors, food history, food journalism, women's history month, women's page history
Women’s History Month: Eleanor Ostman
Day six of Women’s History Month features Eleanor Ostman. She graduated from Macalester College’s journalism program and wrote about home furnishings before covering food at the St. Paul Pioneer-Press. At the time, she was a young wife without much cooking experience. She wrote about her family’s love of a dish or a disaster that she had in the kitchen. She initiated a recipe column “This Sunday” that ran for more than 25 years. She is known for having lunch with Paul Newman after winning his recipe contest. She was married to Ron Aune and they raised a son. She wrote several cookbooks based on her column – a mix of…
- Clarice Rowlands, food editors, food history, food journalism, food section, Milwaukee Journal, women's history month, women's page history
Women’s History Month: Clarice Rowlands
Day five of Women’s History Month features Clarice Rowlands. Clarice Rowlands was the food editor of the Milwaukee Journal in the 1950s – an interest that she said started when she was a member of the 4-H Club in high school. A 1936 graduate of the University of Wisconsin, she was a society reporter at a Green Bay newspaper from 1937 until 1943 and then joined the Journal. She said she was often asked the question that tends to irritate many food writers: “Does she cook?” Many of these women found that the question undermined their roles as journalists. Rowlands’ response to the question was: “No, I am a reporter…
- food editors, food history, food journalism, food section, Peggy Daum, women's history month, women's page history
Women’s History Month: Peggy Daum
Day four of Women’s History Month features Milwaukee Journal food editor 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 was a Milwaukee native who earned an undergraduate degree in journalism and a minor in home economics from the University of Arizona. She later earned a master’s degree in journalism from Marquette University. Her thesis was a study of women’s pages. 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…
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Food Studies Presentation: Ohio Food Editor History
- food editors, food history, food journalism, Jane Nickerson, women's history month, women's page history
Women’s History Month: Jane Nickerson
The third day of Women’s History Month features New York Times food editor Jane Nickerson. I will be blogging about a different food editor each days this month. Nickerson’s work is often overshadowed by Craig Claiborne at the NYT. He is given credit for including news in the food section in 1957 but Jane had been doing that since World War II. The story of Nickerson’s resignation from the newspaper was explained in Craig Claiborne’s memoir, A Memoir with Recipes: A Feast Made for Laughter (New York: Doubleday & Co., 1982). He wrote that at the beginning of 1957, she told the Times that “for reasons for family” she would…
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