I was so excited to receive a package from the Fales Library at New York University yesterday. In it was an oral history that food writer Laura Shapiro conducted with longtime A.P. food editor Cecily Brownstone. (The photo above is in her papers – this was taken at a 1951 party for the author of The Joy of Cooking.) Some highlights from the oral history:* Unlike the charges of food editors taking advertising money: “I stayed away from manufacturers in my A.P. days.” She would not mention brand names in stories or recipes. She said: “A.P. would not have allowed that. And I was smart enough not to want to…