food journalism
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Save the Date: Savoring Gotham
I was excited to see that the New York City food encyclopedia, Savoring Gotham, is closer to publication. My contribution was an entry about Jane Nickerson – the first food editor at the New York Times. Here is more about her career in NYC.
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Food Studies Presentation: Ohio Food Editor History
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AFJ: Roy Peter Clark Talk
I had a wonderful time listening to Roy Peter Clark speak at the Association for Food Journalists Conference in St. Petersburg at the Poynter Institute. His analysis of food writer M.F.K. Fisher’s work was wonderful and a good lesson in storytelling.
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Upcoming Conference: Association for Food Journalists
Looking forward to the Association of Food Journalists’ Conference in Tampa/St. Petersburg next week. Hoping to learn more about Florida food history to collection information for my Miami food book.
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New Dorothy Jurney letter
I am back to working on my women and politics book that focuses on several women’s page editors, including Marjorie Paxson, Marie Anderson, Vera Glaser and Dorothy Jurney. In my research, I came across a great letter to women’s page editor Dorothy Jurney from food editor Eudora Garrison. It can be found in Jurney’s papers in the National Women & Media Collection. Dorothy was the women’s page editor at the Miami Herald in the 1950s when she was asked to go to the Charlotte Observer for a few weeks to help improve the women’s pages at that newspaper. Eudora was the food editor at the time. Eudora wrote to Dorothy…
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Food Journalism Talk at the Matheson History Museum
I am looking forward to talking about newspaper food editors at the Matheson History Museum in Gainesville on Saturday. It is based on the material I taught in my Florida food journalism history class at Rollins College this month.
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History of Washington State Food Editors
I am going over the page proofs for the upcoming “Recipes & Reporting” for Columbia Magazine. The article is about the food editors from Washington State; all of the editors used pen names which made the research challenging. The article will be published this summer.
