food journalism
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Investigating Food Journalism History
As I go through the page proofs of The Food Section, I was reminded how this research got started. My investigation of food journalism began with a Call For Papers for the Icons of American Cooking chapters several years ago. I responded and pitched Jeanne Voltz’s name. I was familiar with Jeanne’s work as the food editor at the Miami Herald and knew that she went on to a successful career at the Los Angeles Times. Instead, I got assigned the chapter for James Beard. As I did the research for the chapter, I was amazed how much scholarship already existed about Beard. It was difficult to believe that culinary…
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Food Studies Presentation: Ohio Food Editor History
- Ann Criswell, dorothy kincaid, Eleanor Ostman, food editors, food history, food journalism, Helen Dollaghan, Janet Beighle, Peggy Daum
Food Editors’ Favorites: Treasured Recipes
I found this 1983 book, Food Editors’ Favorites: Treasured Recipes, at the local Goodwill. It was a fundraising cookbook for Mothers Against Drunk Driving. Newspaper food editors from across the country contributed recipes. While my book looks at newspaper food journalism from 1942 through 1975, several of the food editors I studied are in this book. Milwaukee Journal food editor Peggy Daum: “This curry dip served with vegetables has become my price of admission to many friends’ parties.” (p 17) Plain Dealer food editor Janet Beighle French: “This antipasto has earned a permanent place at my annual Christmas bash – a snack buffet for about 100 people.” (p 27) Minneapolis…
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Tomorrow: Women & Food Symposium
For my Austin readers, tomorrow is the Women & Food Symposium at the University of Texas. I will be speaking remotely on the panel Writing about Food in the Age of New Media. I will be sure to mention the work of women’s pages and the food sections in newspapers.
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Food Studies Presentation: Ohio Food Editor History
- Cecily Brownstone, food editors, food journalism, James Beard, Jane Nickerson, restaurant critics, restaurant reviewing
New York City Culinary Conversation of James Beard, Jane Nickerson, and Cecily Brownstone
My article “Dining Out: New York City Culinary Conversation of James Beard, Jane Nickerson, and Cecily Brownstone,” has been accepted for publication in NYFoodStory which is produced by the Culinary Historians of New York. In the late 1940s and for much of the 1950s, Jane Nickerson was the food editor of the New York Times . Although she has been largely overshadowed by Craig Claiborne, she was a formidable force in the New York food community. She reviewed many of the city’s restaurants, up to 21,000 in 1949. Often, her dinner companions were food writers James Beard and Cecily Brownstone. In fact, Nickerson introduced the culinary pair who would speak…
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Green Bean Casserole & Food Editor Cecily Brownstone
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Recipes From the Tower Kitchen
For Christmas, I received this copy of Recipes From the Tower Kitchen by Carol Haddix. It was produced by the Food Section & Test Kitchen of the Detroit Free Press. According to the introduction (written, I am guessing, in the 1970s), “the Tower Kitchen has been remodeled in contemporary orange and black – designed for efficient testing of each new food idea that appears in the Free Press Food Guide.” Most newspaper food section published recipe booklets and pamphlets, as well as their own cookbooks. Carol, who went on to be the food editor of the Chicago Tribune, was very kind of answer my questions for my book, The Food…
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Merry Christmas!
