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Top Food Editors: Day Ten & Phyllis Tamor
Day 10 of top newspaper food editors features Phyllis Tamor of the Cincinnati Enquirer. Phyllis Tamor was a home economics graduate of Pennsylvania State University. She worked as a home economist for a Chicago meat company in the 1950s. It involved a great deal of travel and a daily taste testing of steak when she was in town. She sometimes made presentations under the name of “Martha Logan.” She went on to become the food editor for the Cincinnati Enquirer. She judged several cooking contest, including a 1964 meat roasting contest that was also covered by a Sports Illustrated reporter. She did graduate work in nutrition. She left the journalism…
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Top Food Editors: Day Nine & Nell Snead
After earning a college degree and teaching English in Nebraska, Nell Snead applied for a job at the Kansas City Star while in the city on vacation in the 1930s. She started on the city desk but soon took on the job of women’s page editor after being promised that she could go to New York City to learn about fashion. She also covered food and her recipes are included in the 1952 Coast to Coast cookbook. There were four women on the staff when she was hired and she encouraged the hiring of more women. She trained 16 of them who became known as “Nell’s chicks.” She survived a…
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Top Food Editors: Day Eight & Helen Dollaghan
Day Eight of the Top Food Editors features Helen Dollaghan of the Denver Post. Helen earned a journalism degree from the University of Denver. She was the food editor of the Denver Post from 1958 to 1993, after starting at the newspaper taking classified advertising. She tested recipes in her own kitchen. She was known for breaking ground with on-site food photography such as having photographs taken at the local Squaw Pass. She became known for the recipe Apricot Brandy Chicken when some readers improvised and caused oven doors to be blown off. The cooks who’d had trouble admitted to modifying the recipe by adding extra brandy, then covering the…
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- Florida newspapers, food editors, food journalism, Jane Nickerson, Top Food Editors, women's page history
Top Food Editors: Day Seven & Jane Nickerson
Day seven of top newspaper food editors features Jane Nickerson – the first food editor of the New York Times. In 1938, she graduated from the all-female Radcliffe College. The following year, she began her journalism career as an editorial assistant for the Ladies Home Journal. She moved on to the Saturday Evening Post before moving to New York City in 1942 to work at The New York Times. She left the newspaper in 1957 and was replaced by Craig Claiborne. After raising four children, she wrote a cookbook and became the food editor at the Lakeland Ledger in 1972. She also reviewed restaurants for the newspaper.
- Cecily Brownstone, food editors, food history, food journalism, Top Food Editors, women's page history
Top Food Editors: Day Six & Cecily Brownstone
Day six of top newspaper food editors features Cecily Brownstone – the longtime food editor at the Associated Press. She had daily recipes and a weekly column from 1947 to 1986. She was a close friend and confident of James Beard who spoke on the phone almost daily, at 8 a.m. New York Times food columnist Molly O’Neil called Brownstone one of the “cornerstones of authentic cooking in New York.” Upon Brownstone’s retirement, former New York Times Food Editor Jane Nickerson wrote: “Of syndicated food writers, she’s been the most widely read.” Her papers are at the Fales Library at NYU. This images – from a dinner party at her…
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- Carol McCready Hartley, food editors, food journalism, journalism history, Top Food Editors, women's page history
Top Food Editors: Day Four & Carol McCready Hartley
Day 4 of Top Food Editor features Arizona food editor – Carol McCready Hartley. Hartley graduated from Iowa State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in home economics, focusing on textiles. She was a member of Pi Beta Phi sorority. Her first job was in Chicago, at Carson Pirie Scott, the city’s second largest department store, as a member of the Fashion Board, staging style shows throughout Chicago and North Shore suburbs. She married Richard H. Voshall in 1955. The couple divorced in 1961. She moved from Chicago to Phoenix, Arizona in 1961, and went to work for Phoenix Newspapers, Inc., the following year. She became the first food…
