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Baltimore Sun: Fun With Sea Food
I tracked down this recipe booklet “Fun With Sea Food” published by the Baltimore Sun in the 1950s. The author is Virginia Roeder who had a background in home economics and a PhD from Johns Hopkins University. I am researching more about her but it has been a challenge as she married and changed names several times. She will be included in my upcoming book about women’s page journalism.
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Review of The Food Section
I appreciate this great review of The Food Section in the Digest: A Journal of Foodways & Culture.
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Food Section From the 1950s
I came across this food section that ran on April 11, 1958. A friend’s grandmother was one of the featured women.
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Chicago Encyclopedia of Food
Excited to learn that the Chicago Encyclopedia of Food will be out this fall. I wrote the entry about longtime Chicago Tribune food editor Ruth Ellen Church.
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Florida Food History: Ice House
Came across this cool example of food history in Anna Maria Island over the weekend. The AMI History Center was built as an ice house in 1920.
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Cecily Brownstone, Thanksgiving & the Green Bean Casserole
Cecily Brownstone was the longtime food editor at the Associated Press who is included in The Food Section: Newspaper Women and the Culinary Community. I think of her every Thanksgiving because of her connection to the green bean casserole. We are celebrating Thanksgiving early this year since we will spend the holiday at the beach. According to a 2007 post from Saveur magazine:“It wasn’t until 1955, however, that the dish’s most steadfast incarnation entered the scene. This enduring formula, one that many home cooks still use, called for a trinity of convenience products: canned Durkee or French’s fried onions, Green Giant canned green beans, and Campbell’s condensed cream of mushroom…