food journalism
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Jane Nickerson and the White Bread Book
I just started reading the book, White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf. While it has been an interesting read, I was sad to read that New York Times food writer Jane Nickerson’s name was misspelled as “Janet Nickerson” on page 228. I am finishing up a conference paper about Jane. She was likely the first food writer at the New York Times – a position she held until 1957. While she supposedly “retired” at that point, she was actually taken a few years off to raise her children before returning to food journalism at the Lakeland Ledger – a NY Times newspaper.
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Setting the Table
I am reading this book as I work on a conference paper about New York Times food editor Jane Nickerson. I was pleased to see that she is referenced in the index of the book, although once again she is completely overshadowed by the NY Times food editor who came after her, Craig Claiborne.
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Food Critic & Ethics
Romensko featured a great post about the food critic at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and ethics. Here is a link. Lance and I are researching and writing about ethics and food journalism. This is a great example of how ethics played a bigger part in the coverage of food than previously thought.
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Washington Post article on recipe testing
The Washington Post has published an article about food sections and recipe testing. It is available here. The writer did not include anything about the Milwaukee Journal’s food section – which had a testing kitchen for decades. Here is the brief history included in the Washington Post article which excluded the long history of women’s pages: “Perhaps surprising, many of the editors contacted for this story said their recipe-testing budgets have not been targeted for reduction or elimination — at least to their knowledge. What might be more surprising, however, is that some of them had to persuade their bosses to institute recipe testing in the first place. It would…
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Ruth Ellen Church’s college years
Before Christmas, I received a wonderful package from the Parks Library at Iowa State University – where Chicago Tribune food editor Ruth Ellen Church earned her degree in home ec journalism. (She was in the class of 1933.) The photo above is from the papers at Iowa State. Here is more about Ruth Ellen’s cookbooks which are also there. Here is one example of the many activities that Ruth Ellen was involved in while in college. I will blog about more of her college work next week as I work on a conference paper about Ruth Ellen’s career. My thanks to the wonderful librarians in the Park Library at Iowa…
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Food Editor Jane Nickerson’s Yearbook
I came across the digitized yearbooks of Radcliffe University yesterday. This is the citation. Above is the 1938 yearbook page for senior Jane Nickerson who would go on to be the first food editor (in the women’s pages) at the New York Times and went on to the food editor at the Lakeland Ledger in Florida. So far, all of the food editors I have investigated have been college graduates which was unusual compared to journalists overall in the 1940s through the 1960s. Many of these women had degrees that were a mix of journalism and home economics.
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