This week I received some copies from the Fales Library and Special Collections at NYU. The Library is building a collection related to food. I had ordered copies from the papers of Cecily Brownstone – the longtime food writer for the Associated Press. Here is more about her career. What I received were letters from Jeanne Voltz (who was the food editor at the Miami Herald in the 1950s and the Los Angeles Times in the 1960s) and Jane Nickerson (who was the food editor at the New York Times and the Lakeland Ledger). My favorite part was the note from Jane’s daughter who I think I might have tracked…

This week I received some copies from the Fales Library and Special Collections at NYU. The Library is building a collection related to food. I had ordered copies from the papers of Cecily Brownstone – the longtime food writer for the Associated Press. Here is more about her career. What I received were letters from Jeanne Voltz (who was the food editor at the Miami Herald in the 1950s and the Los Angeles Times in the 1960s) and Jane Nickerson (who was the food editor at the New York Times and the Lakeland Ledger). My favorite part was the note from Jane’s daughter who I think I might have tracked…

I just started reading this great cookbook, Cooking Up a Storm. Here is the NYT review of the book. I like this description:“THE notion of keeping a file of recipes clipped from a newspaper seems a quaint but fading pursuit. Still, those flimsy reflections of the way a family, and a community, cooks have a value beyond the dishes themselves. That lesson was never clearer than after Hurricane Katrina, when 80 percent of New Orleans was flooded. Among the household items whose loss was felt most painfully were recipe collections. About two months after the storm, Judy Walker, the food editor of The Times-Picayune, got back to the business of…

I just started reading this great cookbook, Cooking Up a Storm. Here is the NYT review of the book. I like this description:“THE notion of keeping a file of recipes clipped from a newspaper seems a quaint but fading pursuit. Still, those flimsy reflections of the way a family, and a community, cooks have a value beyond the dishes themselves. That lesson was never clearer than after Hurricane Katrina, when 80 percent of New Orleans was flooded. Among the household items whose loss was felt most painfully were recipe collections. About two months after the storm, Judy Walker, the food editor of The Times-Picayune, got back to the business of…

I was excited to see this upcoming talk by the Culinary Historians of Southern California: “”The Old Girl Network: Charity Cookbooks and the Empowerment of Women.” This is the lead to the blog post about the talk: “Bra burning, Rosie the Riveter, even the Pill: all these are symbols that come to mind when we think of women’s lib. But cookbooks? We didn’t realize they were on the list. However an upcoming event hosted by the Culinary Historians of Southern California will change all that.” As the Culinary Historians further explain it, “These cookbooks demonstrate how women worked together to help themselves, other women and the outside world. They championed…

I was excited to see this upcoming talk by the Culinary Historians of Southern California: “”The Old Girl Network: Charity Cookbooks and the Empowerment of Women.” This is the lead to the blog post about the talk: “Bra burning, Rosie the Riveter, even the Pill: all these are symbols that come to mind when we think of women’s lib. But cookbooks? We didn’t realize they were on the list. However an upcoming event hosted by the Culinary Historians of Southern California will change all that.” As the Culinary Historians further explain it, “These cookbooks demonstrate how women worked together to help themselves, other women and the outside world. They championed…