food history
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Happy Birthday to Jeanne Voltz
Today would have been food editor Jeanne Voltz‘s 93 birthday. She was at the Miami Herald in the 1950s and at the Los Angeles Times in the 1960s. In her more than forty years as a journalist, Voltz became what one culinary authority described as “the best known food expert you’ve probably never heard of.” Terry Ford, a food editor and a charter member of Julia Child’s American Institute of Food and Wine, declared that Voltz has not been recognized for her contribution to culinary journalism. “She’s an extraordinary person, he said. “Her career goes bicoastal. Her impact and her knowledge is vast. She is very gifted, very crafted. When…
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Researching Food Journalism History
Research for my upcoming book, The Food Section: Newspaper Women and the Culinary Community, meant some great culinary adventures. Lance & I along with both children attended the International Food & Wine Festival at Epcot last fall as I began looking at how Orlando Sentinel food editor Dorothy Chapman covered the theme park restaurants. Last Christmas, I entered the NY Times Cookie Contest that was held on Pinterest. I submitted by beachy cookie creation. Most newspaper food sections held regular cooking contests for home cooks. In February 2013, we attended the Orlando Chili Cook-Off to look at how the judging for the competition was done. Newspaper food editors were often…
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Food Studies: The Culinary Journalists of the 1950s
My paper “The Culinary Journalists of the 1950s: An Examination of the Women Who Explained the News of Food” has been accepted for the 2014 Food Studies Conference. The paper answers the question: Who were these women who covered the food beat at newspapers in the 1950s? Many false assumptions have been made about these food editors as being simple as best and at worst, as being unethical. The truth is that most editors (almost all female) were trained journalists and/or home economists. Yet, at various times these women have found themselves either marginalized or under attack. This paper seeks to clarify what was newspaper food journalism by looking at…
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Stories of Washington State Food Editors
Columbia Magazine just accepted my pitch about Washington State food editors. (My 2010 article about women’s page journalist Bobbi McCallum was published in Columbia.) I am going to be writing about three of Washington’s food editors: Prudence Penny at the Seattle P-I, Dorothy Neighbors at the Seattle Times and Dorothy Dean at the Spokesman-Review – they are all pen names. What makes this work a challenge was the use of pen names. I want to know who these women actually were. For example, the food editors at the Spokane Spokesman-Review used the pen name “Dorothy Dean” for decades, with several women sharing the continuous byline. The first woman serving in…
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Happy Birthday to Irma Rombauer
The National Women’s History Museum included this post on its Facebook wall today:“Happy Birthday Irma Rombauer! She first published the “Joy of Cooking” in 1931; she changed the face of American cookbooks by including an ingredient list, detailed step-by-step directions, and personal anecdotes. The “Joy of Cooking” is one of the most-published cookbooks in the country–today, it has sold more than 18 million copies.” A.P. food editor Cecily Brownstone became a good friend of St. Louis, Missouri resident Irma Rombauer. Their friendship pre-dated Brownstone’s wire service career. Cecily was a food editor at Parents Magazine when the cookbook first came out. She traveled to St. Louis to meet Rombauer. As…
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