food history
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Food Editor Talk at the Leesburg Library
I had a great time talking about Florida food editors at the Leesburg Library yesterday: Jane Nickerson, Jeanne Voltz and Ruth Gray. Here is the PowerPoint from my talk.
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Repost: Cecily Brownstone & the Green Bean Casserole
Cecily Brownstone was the longtime food editor at the Associated Press who is include 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. 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 soup, usually accompanied by milk, soy sauce, and a dash of pepper. It was invented by…
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Green Bean Casserole & Food Editor Cecily Brownstone
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Save the Date: Savoring Gotham
I was excited to see that the New York City food encyclopedia, Savoring Gotham, is closer to publication. My contribution was an entry about Jane Nickerson – the first food editor at the New York Times. Here is more about her career in NYC.
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Food Studies Presentation: Ohio Food Editor History
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AFJ: Roy Peter Clark Talk
I had a wonderful time listening to Roy Peter Clark speak at the Association for Food Journalists Conference in St. Petersburg at the Poynter Institute. His analysis of food writer M.F.K. Fisher’s work was wonderful and a good lesson in storytelling.
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Food Journalism Talk at the Matheson History Museum
I am looking forward to talking about newspaper food editors at the Matheson History Museum in Gainesville on Saturday. It is based on the material I taught in my Florida food journalism history class at Rollins College this month.
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Food Studies Presentation: Ohio Food Editor History
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History of Washington State Food Editors
I am going over the page proofs for the upcoming “Recipes & Reporting” for Columbia Magazine. The article is about the food editors from Washington State; all of the editors used pen names which made the research challenging. The article will be published this summer.
