food
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Jeanne Voltz manuscript
This is a copy of a book I just found that newspaper food journalist Jeanne Voltz edited. I am completing a book chapter about Voltz and her years as a food editor at the Los Angeles Times.
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Bellows, Voltz and Christmas
For Christmas, Lance got me the book, 80:Our Most Famous 80 Year Olds. It is edited by Jim Bellows. Jim was a great editor at several major dailies, including the New York Herald Tribune and the Washington Star. Jim was an advocate for women at the newspapers he oversaw. He was married to influential women’s page editor Maggie Savoy. (There’s a chapter devoted to Maggie in the book shown in this post, The Last Editor.) Here’s a link to an interview with Jim. Here’s another interview link. Lance and I are working on a paper about Jim and other progressive male editors. Lance and I have spent the last two…
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Jeanne Voltz in Miami
I am working on an article about food editor Jeanne Voltz. I will focus on her time in Los Angeles. This page is from Voltz’s time in the women’s page at the Miami Herald. Notice the headshot of Voltz. The food editor was often a local celebrity.
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Jeanne Voltz interview
Jeanne Voltz was a groundbreaking food journalist. On Friday I spoke with Jeanne Voltz’s daughter for my work on Votlz’s time at the Los Angeles Times. It was wonderful to speak to someone who knew so many of the great women I have researched: Bobbi Applegate, Marie Anderson, Helen Muir, Dorothy Jurney and Marj Paxson. (I’m rather certain that Voltz worked with Maggie Savoy while at the Times.)
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Jeanne Voltz
One of the common elements of women’s pages were the food sections. One of the top food editors in the 1950s and 1960s was Jeanne Voltz. Voltz was born in Collinsville, Alabama. She went to school at the Alabama College for Women and began a career in journalism in 1940 in Birmingham when few women were in the field. She was self-educated about food and was a fan of barbeque well before it became popular. In the 1950s, she was food editor at the Miami Herald. The newspaper had a large food section each Thursday. Dorothy Jurney, who was known as the godmother of the progressive women’s sections, was overseeing…
