food history
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The Importance of the San Francisco Chronicle Food Section
The San Francisco Chronicle is wrong to think of re-tooling the food section to make it something different than what readers have long been used to reading. The recent Facebook page devoted to saving the food section is just one example of the kind of backlash the newspaper has been receiving. (Newspaper management has responded that food coverage will remain the same but has not said that the food section will remain.) I have long studied newspaper food sections which began in the women’s pages. Newspaper food sections have long served an important purpose for home cooks and restaurant fans. Readers wrote letters and called the editors on a regular…
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The Future of the San Francisco Food Section?
[View the story “San Francisco Chronicle Food Section” on Storify]
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Women & Food Symposium
I am excited to speak about some of my favorite topics at the Women & Food Symposium: food, gender, journalism & social media. I will speak about the recipe exchange columns from the newspaper food sections as a form of social media.
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Our NCA Talk: Regional Cookery
Today, Lance & I are giving a talk at the NCA Pre-conference: Our Place at the Table: Continuing the Conversation and Deepening the Connections between Food and Communication. Our paper is “Regional Cookery: The Relationship Between Newspaper Food Editors & Home Cooks Spanning the Public & Private Spheres.” It is an examination of newspaper cookbooks from the 1940s through the 1970s. It builds on the scholarship of some scholars who have found that the act of producing the cooking publication were more feminist than originally thought. For example, a study of the “Lutheran Church Women” in Iowa found distinct feminist actions. The scholar noted the activity of gathering information and…
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Vintage Cocktail Column
My Vintage Cocktail Column in Okra Magazine has been published. Here is a link to it. In my post, I wrote about the Washington women’s page and female political journalists: “In 1962, the Women’s National Press Club issued a new cookbook to raise money for a clubhouse. The book, Second Helping, was a follow up to the group’s popular 1955 publication, Who Says We Can’t Cook! The Washington, D.C.-based female reporters were known for their alcohol-fueled gatherings and their books featured several cocktail recipes. (To get an idea of how much alcohol the journalists consumed, a book about them was titled Drunk Before Noon.)”
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The Food Section Cover
The cover of my upcoming book, The Food Section, has been approved. I love what the designer did with the cover.
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