food history
- food editors, food history, food journalism, Peggy Daum, women's history month, women's page history
Women’s History Month: Peggy Daum
Day 19 of Women’s History Month features another Milwaukee Journal women’s page journalist: 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 had a strong journalism background that she applied to her beat – food. 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 journalism, she never forgot who her section was for. She wrote it for the typical, salt-of-the-earth, best cook on the block.” And those neighborhood cooks, her…
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Food Studies Presentation: Ohio Food Editor History
- Carol McCready Hartley, food history, food journalism, journalism history, women's history month, women's page history
Women’s History Month: Carol McCready Hartley
Day 12 of Women’s History Month features another 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…
- Arizona Republic, Dorothee Polson, food history, food journalism, women's history month, women's page history
Women’s History Month: Dorothee Polson
Day 11 of Women’s History Month features Arizona Republic food editor Dorothee Polson. She was a Vesta Award winner for top newspaper food writing and knew Arizona women’s page editor Maggie Savoy who I blogged about earlier this month. I came across an oral history with Dorothee. It is available here. In the history, Dorothee mentions Maggie and her experiences as a food journalist. Here is one of my favorite parts as she described coming to Phoenix in 1962:“I think it helped me that there had not been a food section, because there were no rules and regulations to follow. I could just do whatever I wanted to. And I…
- Florida Women's Pages, food history, food journalism, Jeanne Voltz, women's history month, women's page history
Women’s History Month: Jeanne Voltz
Day seven of Women’s History Month features my final Miami Herald women’s page journalist: food editor Jeanne Voltz. Here is a link to my article about Voltz’s career at the Los Angeles Times where she went after many years at the Herald. Like several food editors, Voltz wrote several cookbooks – including one of my favorites, The Florida Cookbook. Today, Voltz’s recipe for Green Corn Tamales can be found on the Food Network website with a note giving credit to her acclaimed book, Barbecued Ribs, Smoked Butts, and Other Great Feeds. James Beard, a well-known name in food and a contemporary of Julia Child, wrote of the book, “Jeanne Voltz…
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Writing Women into the Curriculum
- Florida Women's Pages, food editors, food history, food journalism, Jeanne Voltz, journalism history
Great Image of Food Editor Jeanne Voltz
I love this great image of Food Editor Jeanne Voltz. She is getting ready to fly with USN Blue Angels, Miami, 1956. I noticed the image on her daughter Jeanne’s Facebook page and I appreciate her letting me use it. In the 1950s, Jeanne Voltz was the food editor at the Miami Herald before moving on to the Los Angeles Times in 1960. Here is how she is described in her obituary: “She was one of the first newspaper food editors of the modern era, when the sections were edited by journalists rather than by the advertising department.” There has been an over generalization that food journalism was run by…
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Clementine Paddleford Clips
I recently came across this clip written by New York Herald Tribune food writer Clementine Paddleford. Here is a great article about Clementine. Her papers are at Kansas State University. Her writing had considerable reach but she has largely been overshadowed by the New York Times food editor Craig Claiborne.
