food section
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Cookbook Dedication: Day Two
Most of the newspaper food editors in my book, The Food Section, wrote cookbooks. Many included tributes that were helpful in understanding their lives and their relationships. Jeanne Voltz, food editor at the Miami Herald and Los Angeles Times, wrote numerous cookbooks and her dedication pages were insightful. In The Flavor of the South, she wrote:“Marie Sewell Appleton, who had the nerve to let a curious child invade her kitchenandJames Lamar Appleton, who taught the child to taste.” In The Country Ham Book, she wrote:“To the memory of my grandmother Susan Hannon Sewell, who regarded country ham as the staff of life, and my late husband, Luther, who insisted that…
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Food Studies Presentation: Ohio Food Editor History
- Florida food, food editors, food journalism, food section, Grace Barr, Jane Nickerson, Jeanne Voltz, Marie Anderson
Gulfcoast Talk about Women’s Page History
I will be speaking about the Florida food editors and other women’s page journalists in Gulfcoast, Florida next Friday. Here is a link to more information. I will be speaking about Grace Barr, Dorothy Chapman, Anne Rowe, Marie Andrson, Dorothy Juney, Jeanne Voltz & Jane Nickerson.
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Midwestern Newspaper Food Editors: Ruth Ellen Church/Clarice Rowlands/Peggy Daum
Caption: Chicago Tribune food editor Ruth Ellen Church On May 17th, I will be talking about three food editors from my book, The Food Section, at the Chicago Foodways Roundtable. This is the talk: Midwestern Newspaper Food Editors: Ruth Ellen Church/Clarice Rowlands/Peggy Daum Here is the description:This talk is the story of three significant Midwestern food editors from the 1950s and 1960s. Ruth Ellen Church joined the Chicago Tribune as cooking editor in 1936 and oversaw one of the first test kitchens at a newspaper. She published many cookbooks—several under the pen name of Mary Meade. She remained the food editor until 1974 and became the nation’s first newspaper wine…
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New York Culinary Community of Jane Nickerson, Cecily Brownstone & James Beard
Here is a link to my blog post for Rowman & Littlefield about the New York City Food Community in the 1950s. The Food Section will be out at the end of the month.
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Green Bean Casserole & Food Editor Cecily Brownstone
- food editors, food history, food journalism, food section, Lowis Carlton, women's history month, women's page history
Women’s History Month: Lowis Carlton
Day 31 of Women’s History Month features food editor: Lowis Carlton. I discovered her name in a cookbook I bought, Famous Florida Recipes. She had a bachelor’s and master’s degree in English from the University of Miami. She also had a bachelor’s degree in home economics from Florida International University. Like many of the top newspaper food editors of the 1950s and 1960s, she earned a Vesta Award and was a judge for the Pillsbury Bake-Off. She appears to have been the Miami Herald food editor after Jeanne Voltz left for the Los Angeles Times in 1960. By the late 1960s, the Miami Herald food editor was Virginia Heffington. She…
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Food Studies Presentation: Ohio Food Editor History
- food editors, food history, food journalism, food section, ruth gray, women's history month, women's page history
Women’s History Month: Ruth Gray
Day 30 of Women’s History Month features food editor Ruth Gray. Ruth Gray became the food editor in 1963 of the St. Petersburg Times and began reviewing restaurants in 1974. One restaurant that earned a negative review named their crab sandwich in her honor. She earned a bachelor’s degree in home economics from Kansas State University. She married and raised a daughter. When she was investigating a restaurant, Gray wore hats and scarves and ducked inside the ladies room to take notes and remain inconspicuous. The disguises were needed because some restaurants posted her photo on the wall in the kitchen—a common practice because restaurant owners looked to identify critics.…
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