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- elinor lee, food editors, food journalism, food section, women's history month, women's page history
Women’s History Month: Elinor Lee
Day 14 of Women’s History Month features Elinor Lee, the longtime food editor of the Washington Post. She was mentioned in the recent Washington Post Cookbook. Lee was a graduate of Beaver College. She was a teacher of dietetics at a hospital and a home economist before taking a Washington radio job in 1937. When she left radio, her morning program, “At Home with Elinor Lee,” was the top-rated radio show in the 9:15 time slot, and her 12:15 p.m. show, “Home Edition,” was one of the top ten10 daytime shows in the nation’s capital. Lee joined the staff of the Washington Post in 1953, but she continued to do…
- Cecily Brownstone, food editors, food journalism, food section, women's history month, women's page history
Women’s History Month: Cecily Brownstone
Day 13 of Women’s History Month features Cecily Brownstone – the longtime food editor at the Associated Press. She had daily recipes and a weekly column from 1947 to 1986. She was a close friend and confident of James Beard who spoke on the phone almost daily, at 8 a.m. New York Times food columnist Molly O’Neil called Brownstone one of the “cornerstones of authentic cooking in New York.” Upon Brownstone’s retirement, former New York Times Food Editor Jane Nickerson wrote: “Of syndicated food writers, she’s been the most widely read.” Her papers are at the Fales Library at NYU. This images – from a dinner party at her brownstone…
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- Dorothy Crandall, food editors, food journalism, food section, women's history month, women's page history
Women’s Page History: Dorothy Crandall
Day 12 of Women’s History Month features Dorothy Crandall of the Boston Globe. Dorothy Crandall was the Boston Globe’s food editor from 1953 to 1973. She was the editor for Julia Child’s recipe column in the Globe. In 1959, Crandall covered the first meeting of the Boston chapter of Les Dames des Amis d’Escoffier and remained a member until her death. She earned a home economics degree from University of Vermont. While writing food features for the Sunday Globe, she took classes at Boston University in food photography and journalism. She earned a master’s degree in education from the University of Vermont in 1952. She did food and marketing commentaries…
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Women’s History Month: Clementine Paddleford
Day 10 of Women’s History Month features New York food editor Clementine Paddleford. Clementine Paddleford earned a journalism degree from Kansas State University in 1921 and had a good deal of food trade and magazine experience before she began writing for the New York Herald Tribune and This Week magazine beginning in the 1920s until the newspaper went under in 1966. In 1932, doctors removed a malignant growth from her larynx and vocal cords, which left her with a husky voice. For the rest of her life, she breathed through a tube in her throat, concealed by a black ribbon. She had a popular recipe feature, “How America Eats,” that…
- Dorothee Polson, food editors, food history, food journalism, food section, women's history month, women's page history
Women’s History Month: Dorothee Polson
Day 9 of Women’s History Month features Arizona Republic food editor Dorothee Polson. She was a Vesta Award winner for top newspaper food writing. Inan oral history, history, Dorothee mentions her experiences as a food journalist. Here is one of my favorite parts as she described coming to Phoenix in 1962:“I think it helped me that there had not been a food section, because there were no rules and regulations to follow. I could just do whatever I wanted to. And I did. I would do interviews with interesting people that had nothing to do with food and just bring in their favorite recipes, because everyone eats. Most people cook…
- food editors, food history, food journalism, food section, Helen Dollaghan, women's history month, women's page history
Women’s History Month: Helen Dollaghan
Day seven of Women’s History Month features Helen Dollaghan of the Denver Post. Helen earned a journalism degree from the University of Denver. She was the food editor of the Denver Post from 1958 to 1993, after starting at the newspaper taking classified advertising. She tested recipes in her own kitchen. She was known for breaking ground with on-site food photography such as having photographs taken at the local Squaw Pass. She became known for the recipe Apricot Brandy Chicken when some readers improvised and caused oven doors to be blown off. The cooks who’d had trouble admitted to modifying the recipe by adding extra brandy, then covering the casserole…
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