food writing
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Food Columnist Virginia Voigt Roeder Cobb
I have been researching Virginia Voigt Roeder Cobb who had been a food columnist with the Baltimore Sun. This image is from a cookbook which came from the columns. She will be included in my upcoming women’s page editors book. My wonderful ILL folks tracked down her 1959 dissertation from Johns Hopkins University. It’s interesting that she studied the impact of working mothers when she was the mother of four children.
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Review of The Food Section
I appreciate this great review of The Food Section in the Digest: A Journal of Foodways & Culture.
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Women’s History Month: Day 6 & Dorothy Chapman
Day 6 of Women’s History Month features Dorothy Chapman. She had been the women’s page editor at the Orlando Sentinel when Barr was the food editor. When Barr retired in 1969, Chapman became the food editor. In 1971, Chapman became the first restaurant editor at the newspaper. She wrote several cookbooks based on her column, “Thought You’d Never Ask.” According to her obituary: “As the Orlando Sentinel’s first restaurant critic, Chapman wielded her pen and fork with a civil tongue. “We [chefs] gave her a lot of respect because she gave us a lot of respect,” said longtime Orlando restaurateur Major Jarman. “She was fair. Everyone took her comments as…
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Day 5 of Women’s History Month features Orlando Sentinel food editor Grace Warlow Barr. She attended Goucher College in Baltimore before marrying Leal Barr. The couple had twins: Gracia and Graham. They divorced in 1936 and she joined the Sentinel in 1940 to support her family. She initially became the society editor with a column called “Cynthia’s Tea Table Chatter.” The column ended in 1964 and she focused on food. She was the food editor until her retirement in 1969. Her cookbook, Cooking with Grace, was published in 1970. She was known for her recipes that began with “start with a stick of butter.” She had an active social life…
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The Food Section Has Been Published
I am excited to announce that my book The Food Section arrived at my house today. It is currently available on Amazon.
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Talk Mentioned in Orlando Sentinel Food Section
Happy to see Orlando Sentinel’s save-the-date for my talk about Florida Food Editors.
