food history
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The Food Section: UCF Book Festival
I had a great time talking about The Food Section at the 2015 UCF Book Festival. There was a great turnout and I signed a few books.
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The Food Section Talk at the UCF Book Festival
My talk about The Food Section is a week from today at the UCF Book Festival.
- Clementine Paddleford, Florida Conference of Historians, Florida food, Florida history, food editors, food history, food journalism
Clementine Paddleford & The Gasparilla Cookbook
I have been working on my paper for the Florida Conference of Historians about the Tampa Junior League and its publication, The Gasparilla Cookbook. The conference is less than 2 weeks away. First published in 1961, the cookbook has been a big success. After many reprintings, it celebrated its 50th birthday in 2011. Part of the success has been because of the coverage by newspaper food editor Clementine Paddleford. She did not typically write about cookbooks so this story was unique. Thanks to the archivist at Kansas State University who helped me find it.
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Great Food History Story in Austin American-Statesman
I truly appreciate this Austin American-Statesman story about my book The Food Section. A great lead: “Kimberly Wilmot Voss admits that her 2014 book “The Food Section” was motivated in part by spite. The University of Central Florida associate professor had long studied journalism history with a focus on women’s pages, whose coverage of the four F’s — family, food, fashion and finishing, called “soft news” — has long been dismissed among most journalism historians as unimportant or irrelevant.” I also loved this quote: “These women were considered nothing,” Voss says. “They were real journalists and home economists, but they certainly weren’t corrupt and they were nobody’s fool.” I also…
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Talking about The Food Section
I had a great time talking about The Food Section on the radio program A Taste of the Past. The interview is now available as a podcast, available here.
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Talking Food History at Le Cordon Bleu Orlando
I had a great time talking about newspaper food editors and the cooking of the 1950s & 1960s at Le Cordon Bleu Orlando yesterday. A great groups of chefs and future chefs.