Grace Barr
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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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Food History Talks at Rollins College in June
I appreciate Orlando Sentinel Food Editor Heather McPherson including a blurb about my Rollins College talks about Florida food history – including Florida food editors Dorothy Chapman, Grace Barr, Jeanne Voltz and Jane Nickerson. Enrollment information is available here.
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Jeanne Voltz & the Southern Foodways Alliance
Last week I joined the Southern Foodways Alliance in honor of newspaper food editor Jeanne Voltz. Here is information about Jeanne Voltz’s role in the organization:“The Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi agreed to act as the incubator of the SFA and provided start-up capital, earned from sale of the Center-researched and written cookbook, A Gracious Plenty: Recipes and Recollections from the American South. (In May of 1998, the Center had staged the first Southern Foodways Symposium, organized by John T Edge, then a graduate student.) Two organizations with similar aims preceded the SFA: The Society for the Preservation and Revitalization of Southern Food,…
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Radio Talk about The Food Section
For those in Orlando, I will be speaking about my book, The Food Section on the Rollins College radio program, Rethinking the City from 4-5 p.m. It is hosted by Patrick Greene – grandson of Fort Lauderdale women’s page editor Edee Greene. It is on WPRK – 91.5 FM. I will address Orlando Sentinel food editor Grace Barr who wrote this cookbook.
