food journalism
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Top Food Editors: Day 23 & Jeanne Voltz
Day 23 of Top Food Editors features Jeanne Voltz. Jeanne Voltz earned a journalism degree from what is now the University of Montevallo. She worked the news beat during World War II and got married to a fellow journalist. She then became the food editor at the Miami Herald in the 1950s and at the Los Angeles Times in the 1960s through the early 1970s. She later became the food editor at Woman’s Day magazine. She wrote many cookbooks and was considered an expert on BBQ and Southern cooking. She was married for most of her career and raised two children. She published many cookbooks – several of which are…
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Top Food Editors: Day 22 & Clementine Paddleford
Day 22 of Top Food Editors features Clementine Paddleford. Clementine Paddleford earned a journalism degree from Kansas State University in 1921 and had a good deal of food trade and magazine experience before she began writing for the New York Herald Tribune and This Week magazine beginning in the 1920s until the newspaper went under in 1966. In 1932, doctors removed a malignant growth from her larynx and vocal cords, which left her with a husky voice. For the rest of her life, she breathed through a tube in her throat, concealed by a black ribbon. She had a popular recipe feature, “How America Eats,” that was turned into a…
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Top Food Editors” Day 21 & Dorothy Sinz
Day 21 of Top Food Editors features Dorothy Sinz. Dorothy Sinz was the food editor of the Dallas Times Herald from the 1940s through 1969. She died the following year. She was a judge in the Miss America pageant in 1964 and 1966. She was also a judge in the Pillsbury Bake-Off. She graduated from Southern Methodist University in Dallas in 1931. She wrote a recipe book for the newspaper in 1964. Her obituary noted her request that her age not be listed.
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Top Food Editors: Day 20 & Julie Duvac Bowes
Day 20 of Top Food Editors features Julie Duvac Bowes of New Orleans. She began her career of 30 years as the Food Editor of the Times-Picayune in 1949 under the pen name of Sue Baker. She tested on her family the recipes that she used in her twice-weekly column, published on Thursdays and in color on Sundays in the Dixie Roto Magazine. She graduated from Louisiana State University with a degree in home economics in 1942. She married during World War II, and her husband later became a judge. She raised five children and was an accomplished golfer.
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Top Food Editors: Day 19 & Mary Acton Hammond (Frances Blackwood)
Day 19 of Top Food Editors features Mary Acton Hammond who used the pen name “Frances Blackwood” for the Philadelphia Bulletin. Mary Acton Hammond was hired as the newspaper’s first food editor in 1929. She worked out of her own kitchen where she tested her recipes – for 53 years. In 1941, she traveled to England interviewing British women about how they prepared food during the war. It led to a series of columns which First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt mentioned in her “My Day” column. In looking to normalize and understand the women of war-torn Britain, Philadelphia Bulletin food editor Mary Acton Hammond, who used the pen name “Francis Blackwood,”…
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Top Food Editors: Day 18 & Clarice Rowlands
Day 18 of Top Food Editors features Clarice Rowlands. Clarice Rowlands was the food editor of the Milwaukee Journal in the 1950s – an interest that she said started when she was a member of the 4-H Club in high school. A 1936 graduate of the University of Wisconsin, she was a society reporter at a Green Bay newspaper from 1937 until 1943 and then joined the Journal. She occasionally wrote under the pen name Alice Richards. She was married to fellow Journal employee Charles Nevada. She said she was often asked the question that tends to irritate many food writers: “Does she cook?” Many of these women found that…
