food history
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Orlando Sentinel Food Editor Grace Barr
Tomorrow I will be speaking on the program, ReThinking the City on Rollins College radio station WPRK. I plan to mention some of the significant Florida food editors. Yesterday I learned about Grace Warlow Barr who was the longtime food editor at the Orlando Sentinel. I loved this from her obituary: “Barr was a tall, stately woman who stayed slim throughout her life, but her homemade delicacies were not for the diet-conscious. ” ‘Start with a stick of butter. . .’ has become the hallmark of Mrs. Barr’s approach to fine cooking,” a Sentinel editor wrote in a tribute to Barr in 1969. ”Her cooking was perfectly delicious,” Newhart said.…
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Food Editor Janet Beighle French
Yesterday I received this cookbook that was put together by the food journalists at the Cleveland Plain Dealer in 1968. It includes an acknowledgement by then home economics editor Janet Beighle. She donated her article and recipe scrapbooks to the Special Collections at Cleveland State University. I am ordering copies today. I plan to interview Janet at the end of the month about her experiences as a food journalist.
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St. Petersburg Times Food Editor Diana Rowell
I have been looking into the career of Diana Rowell who was the society editor and later food editor in the women’s pages at the St. Petersburg Times. Here is a link to one of her 1953 food columns.
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Second Helping Cookbook
I recently received a copy of the Second Helping Cookbook – a publication of the Women’s National Press Club. It was a follow up to the group’s earlier book, Who Says We Can’t Cook! It was so popular that the initial 5,000 cookbooks were sold in the first week. Included in the Editorial Committee for the second cookbook (published in 1962) was Washington Post women’s page editor Marie Sauer.
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Cookbook Author Myra Waldo
In researching newspaper food sections, I came across cookbook author and newspaper columnist Myra Waldo. Here is a section from her obituary:“Starting in the mid-1950’s, Ms. Waldo wrote more than two dozen travel guides and cookbooks, which she periodically updated. Her ”Serve at Once: The SoufflĂ© Cookbook” of 1954, for instance, was revised as ”The SoufflĂ© Cookbook” in 1961 and, reissued in 1990, remains in print. A book she wrote in 1955 with the actress Gertrude Berg, ”The Molly Goldberg Cookbook,” based on Ms. Berg’s famous television character, was reissued most recently in 1999.” Here is a link to one of her syndicated food columns which ran in the Milwaukee…
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Junior League Cookbooks
I was interviewed for this story that was posted yesterday on NPR’s food blog, The Salt. Above is an image of my copy of a cookbook produced by the Augusta Junior League. “It was an example of women using their power behind the scenes, says Kimberly Voss, a food historian and associate professor at the University of Central Florida. But “in the ’70s, there was a huge backlash against women’s groups that produced cookbooks as fundraisers because it was somehow reinforcing the tradition of the woman in the home.” In recent years, she says, feminist researchers have reconsidered the role of these cookbooks, which required a lot of entrepreneurial muscle…
