food section
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Researching Food Journalism History
Research for my upcoming book, The Food Section: Newspaper Women and the Culinary Community, meant some great culinary adventures. Lance & I along with both children attended the International Food & Wine Festival at Epcot last fall as I began looking at how Orlando Sentinel food editor Dorothy Chapman covered the theme park restaurants. Last Christmas, I entered the NY Times Cookie Contest that was held on Pinterest. I submitted by beachy cookie creation. Most newspaper food sections held regular cooking contests for home cooks. In February 2013, we attended the Orlando Chili Cook-Off to look at how the judging for the competition was done. Newspaper food editors were often…
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Food Studies Presentation: Ohio Food Editor History
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Food Studies: The Culinary Journalists of the 1950s
My paper “The Culinary Journalists of the 1950s: An Examination of the Women Who Explained the News of Food” has been accepted for the 2014 Food Studies Conference. The paper answers the question: Who were these women who covered the food beat at newspapers in the 1950s? Many false assumptions have been made about these food editors as being simple as best and at worst, as being unethical. The truth is that most editors (almost all female) were trained journalists and/or home economists. Yet, at various times these women have found themselves either marginalized or under attack. This paper seeks to clarify what was newspaper food journalism by looking at…
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Food Studies Presentation: Ohio Food Editor History
