food history
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Upcoming Florida Food Talk: Tampa Cookbooks & Restaurants
I am looking forward to talking about Tampa food at the Tampa Bay History Center on Thursday as part of Florida Conversations – Taste & Traditions: Tampa’s Restaurants. I will be speaking about food editor Ruth Gray and the Gasparilla Cookbook.
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Review of The Food Studies
I really enjoyed this review of The Food Section in the journal Women’s Studies.
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The Food Section Promotion
Pleased to see publisher Rowman & Littlefield continues to promote my book, The Food Section, in both food studies and journalism catalogs.
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Food Editor Story in Charleston Post and Courier
I was interviewed for this story about the Charleston food editor Charlotte Walker (pictured above). Walker was included in my book, The Food Section. I loved the conclusion of the article:“Walker retired in 1974, and died in 1995. She left no survivors, so her legacy is carried solely by a compendium of her “Loved and Lost” columns and “The Post-Courier Cookbook,” which today isn’t available for checkout at the public library. “These food editors were so significant,” Voss says. “They did all these great things, but in the 1970s, they began to fade.” Teaching women how to bake pudding cakes ran afoul of the decade’s definition of feminism, and struck…
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The Food Section in New Catalog
Happy to see The Food Section was included in the 2016 Catalog. I am now working on a book about Miami food history which includes food editors Jeanne Voltz and Virginia Heffington. I will be blogging about my research in July.
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National Biography: Clementine Paddleford & Peg Bracken
I have just been assigned to write entries for “Clementine Paddleford,” and “Peg Bracken” for the American National Biography project with Oxford University Press, 2017. It’s now under contract. I initially wrote about both women in the book, The Food Section.