food journalism
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Winning Carol DeMasters Service to Food Journalism Award
I am honored to announce that I won the first Carol DeMasters Service to Food Journalism Award from the Association of Food Journalists. Here is a great article about it. Carol was the longtime food editor at the Milwaukee Sentinel. This is one of her press passes. I interviewed her when I was researching The Food Section. The purpose of the award is to recognize an individual who has made a significant and lasting contribution to the field of food journalism. I am thrilled to be accepting the award next month in Memphis.
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AEJMC Food Editors Presentation
I am looking forward to my poster session at AEJMC in Montreal this month. My thanks to Lance Speere for designing this beautiful poster.
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Providing Context for Craig Claiborne
News about the new food editor at the New York Times has led to many mentions of the late NYT food editor Craig Claiborne yesterday. While Claiborne was certainly significant, his fame has overshadowed Jane Nickerson who was the first food editor at the New York Times. It was a concept I explored in The Food Section. With Jane’s exclusion in mind, I was so happy when Anne Mendelson contacted me about an essay she wrote which detailed the work of the Jane and the other NYT female food journalists who came before Claiborne. It is wonderfully written and provides great context for the NYC food foundation that Jane and…
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Cartoon of Miami Food Editor Jeanne Voltz
I love this cartoon of Miami Herald food editor Jeanne Voltz and her husband Luther, who was a reporter at the newspaper. It can sometime in the 1950’s.
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AEJMC Poster Session About Food Journalism
I will be talking about the women of newspaper food journalism from the 1950s and 1960s at an AEJMC poster session in Montreal. Lance designed this cool header.
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The Food Section is now on Tumblr
The Food Section is now on Tumblr. Take a look!