Jane Nickerson
- Florida food, Florida history, Florida newspapers, Florida Women's Pages, Jane Nickerson, Jeanne Voltz, ruth gorrell, ruth gray
My Pinellas County Talk: Florida’s Food Editors
I am excited to talk about the Florida food editors from my book, The Food Section, in Pinellas County next Sunday as part of its Speaking of History lecture series. I will be speaking about some of my favorite food journalists: Jane Nickerson, Jeanne Voltz & Ruth Gray
- Florida food, Florida newspapers, Florida Women's Pages, food editors, Grace Barr, Jane Nickerson, Jeanne Voltz
Florida Communication of Association Conference
Tomorrow I am speaking about Florida food editors at the Florida Communication Association Conference. Here is a segment of the paper: Jeanne Voltz was the food editor at the Miami Herald during the 1950s. She earned a journalism degree from what is now the University of Montevallo. She worked the news beat during World War II and married a fellow journalist. She then became the food editor at the Miami Herald in the 1950s and at the Los Angeles Times in the 1960s through the early 1970s. She later became the food editor at Woman’s Day magazine. She wrote many cookbooks and was considered an expert on barbecue and Southern…
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Jane Nickerson’s Florida Cookbook
I have been re-reading Jane Nickerson‘s Florida Cookbook and have found some interesting details. I like when a cookbook author sprinkles details about her life among the recipes. For example, on page 114 in a recipe for Avocado Grapefruit Salad, she wrote: “When I was in college during the Depression, I waited on tables at the formal dinner parties of Harvard professors.” She also wrote about a trip her daughter took and the recipe she came home with. The book is dedicated to her children: Marc, Alexandra, Jay and Rick. Jane was the first food editor at the New York Times, from 1945-1957. Later, she was the food editor at…
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Writing Women into the Curriculum
- Florida food, Florida newspapers, Florida Women's Pages, Grace Barr, Jane Nickerson, ruth gorrell, ruth gray
Reflecting Florida at East End Market
A week from today is my book talk about the food editors from Central Florida at the East End Market: Ruth Gray, Grace Barr & Jane Nickerson.
- Clementine Paddleford, food editors, food history, food journalism, Jane Nickerson, Ruth Ellen Church
Food Editors in The Pecan book
There several mentions of important newspaper food editors in this book, The Pecan: A History of America’s Native Nut. The seventh chapter is “In Almost Every Recipe … Pecans May Be Used” : American Consumers Embrace the Pecan, 1940-1960. In it, the author cites several of the women from The Food Section, including Mary Meade (Ruth Ellen Church), Jane Nickerson and Clementine Paddleford.
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Providing Context for Craig Claiborne
News about the new food editor at the New York Times has led to many mentions of the late NYT food editor Craig Claiborne yesterday. While Claiborne was certainly significant, his fame has overshadowed Jane Nickerson who was the first food editor at the New York Times. It was a concept I explored in The Food Section. With Jane’s exclusion in mind, I was so happy when Anne Mendelson contacted me about an essay she wrote which detailed the work of the Jane and the other NYT female food journalists who came before Claiborne. It is wonderfully written and provides great context for the NYC food foundation that Jane and…
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