Jane Nickerson
- food editors, food history, food journalism, Jane Nickerson, Peggy Daum, Rosa Tusa, Ruth Ellen Church
Great Column About The Food Section
I loved this wonderful article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel about The Food Section. I also loved this image of Milwaukee Sentinel food editor Rosa Tusa.
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Food Studies Presentation: Ohio Food Editor History
- Florida food, Florida history, Florida newspapers, Florida Women's Pages, Jane Nickerson, Jeanne Voltz, Virginia Heffington
Florida Historical Society Talk
I had a great time in Fort Lauderdale at the Florida Historical Society Annual Meeting & Symposium. I spoke about the Florida women’s pages and food editors from the 1950s and 1960s: Jeanne Voltz, Virginia Heffington, Ruth Gray & Jane Nickerson.
- Florida food, food editors, food journalism, food section, Grace Barr, Jane Nickerson, Jeanne Voltz, Marie Anderson
Gulfcoast Talk about Women’s Page History
I will be speaking about the Florida food editors and other women’s page journalists in Gulfcoast, Florida next Friday. Here is a link to more information. I will be speaking about Grace Barr, Dorothy Chapman, Anne Rowe, Marie Andrson, Dorothy Juney, Jeanne Voltz & Jane Nickerson.
- Cecily Brownstone, food editors, food history, food journalism, Jane Nickerson, journalism history, women and journalism
James Beard & Female Newspaper Food Editors
This photo was posted on the Fales’ library’s Facebook wall. This is the caption: James Beard, Irma Rombauer, Cecily Brownstone, Clementine Paddleford and other guests at Cecily’s Jane Street home in the 1940s. It is likely that James Beard would be saddened how much his story has overshadowed the women he surrounded himself with during his career. The women who promoted his career and kept his counsel, such as Jane Nickerson and Cecily Brownstone, have been marginalized in culinary history. As Beard’s biographer, Evan Jones, wrote: “Jim was not a heterosexual, but he was a ladies’ man, and he earned deep affection from women of his own and other persuasions.”…
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Green Bean Casserole & Food Editor Cecily Brownstone
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New York Culinary Community of Jane Nickerson, Cecily Brownstone & James Beard
Here is a link to my blog post for Rowman & Littlefield about the New York City Food Community in the 1950s. The Food Section will be out at the end of the month.
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Green Bean Casserole & Food Editor Cecily Brownstone
- food editors, food history, food journalism, Jane Nickerson, women's history month, women's page history
Women’s History Month: Jane Nickerson
The third day of Women’s History Month features New York Times food editor Jane Nickerson. I will be blogging about a different food editor each days this month. Nickerson’s work is often overshadowed by Craig Claiborne at the NYT. He is given credit for including news in the food section in 1957 but Jane had been doing that since World War II. The story of Nickerson’s resignation from the newspaper was explained in Craig Claiborne’s memoir, A Memoir with Recipes: A Feast Made for Laughter (New York: Doubleday & Co., 1982). He wrote that at the beginning of 1957, she told the Times that “for reasons for family” she would…
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