food section
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AEJMC Poster Session About Food Journalism
I will be talking about the women of newspaper food journalism from the 1950s and 1960s at an AEJMC poster session in Montreal. Lance designed this cool header.
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2014 Food Culture & History Catalog
I was pleased to see the great treatment in the Rowman & Littlefield 2014 Food Culture and History Catalog. The Food Section is featured on page seven.
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New Dorothy Neighbors’ Information
I came across this wonderful information about Jeanne Rounds Olsen who worked as “Dorothy Neighbors,” the pen name for the food editor at the Seattle Times. My thanks to the archivists at Washington State University who helped me find the materials and learn more about Olsen.
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The Food Section at Bookmark It
It was fun to see The Food Section at the Bookmark It in Orlando. I stopped in to sign a few copies of the book.
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Teatime to Tailgates & Kathleen Kelly
Just read Teatime to Tailgates and absolutely loved it. Author Jane P. Marshall documented 150 or food, cooking and home economics history at Kansas State University. (Lance is a K-State graduate.) She also includes lots of great recipes. It’s a great read for culinary historians and those interested in regional histories. My favorite part of the book was the history of women who became food editors. There are two K-State graduates in my book, The Food Section: Clementine Paddleford and Ruth Gorrell Gray. I learned about a new food editor while reading Teatime to Tailgates: Kathleen Kelly who was at the Wichita Eagle-Beacon for forty years. She is like most…
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Washington Food Editors & Pen Names
I am working on a history magazine article about three of the 1950s era food editors in Washington State who all wrote under pen names: Dorothy Dean (Spokesman-Review), Dorothy Neighbors (Seattle Times) and Prudence Penny (Seattle Post-Intelligencer). My goal is to tell the stories of the women behind the pen names. For example, this is Joan Conner McDonnell who wrote for the Dorothy Neighbors department. She raised eight children and went back to the newspaper each time. Her daughter Mimi said: “I am proud to say that my mother was a feminist before the phrase was coined, as well as after it was used as a pejorative label.” Another longtime…
