Jane Nickerson
- food history, food journalism, Jane Nickerson, Ruth Casa-Emellos, women's history month, women's page history
Women’s History Month: Ruth Casa-Emellas
Day 28 of Women’s History month features Ruth P. Casa-Emellos, a former home economist for The New York Times. She worked with Jane Nickerson who I blogged about yesterday. In the photo above, she is feeding New York Herald Tribune food editor Clementine Paddleford. Casa-Emellos taught at Columbia University for 20 years before joining the food-news staff of The Times in 1943. Working with Nickerson, Casa-Emellos prepared the dishes that appeared in recipes and food photographs in the newspaper. She tested the recipes for accuracy in The Times’s test kitchen and adapted them, when necessary, for home use. She also wrote occasional columns on food. In one example, she re-created…
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Food Studies Presentation: Ohio Food Editor History
- food history, food journalism, Jane Nickerson, New York Times food, women's history month, women's page history
Women’s History Month: Jane Nickerson
Day 27 of Women’s History Month features New York Times food editor Jane Nickerson. 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 be resigning from the newspaper as of September 1. Claiborne, who became the NYT…
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- Clementine Paddleford, food history, food journalism, Jane Nickerson, Julia Child, New York Times food, Ruth Casa-Emellos
Food Editors & Cookbook Reviews
Julia Child, the cookbook author who became a television personality and a household name, knew that for her publication to be a success it had to be well reviewed. Her first cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, was embraced by American newspaper food editors. Yet, before that success, she worked for years to get her book published with several stops and starts along the way. In 1954, she received a letter with the following advice on getting good press for her book: “Want big splash on household page of either Herald Trib. or Times. Trib. as you know is that dame Paddleford, knows a lot, ghastly (for me) style,…
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History of Restaurant Reviewers
I am writing an entry about restaurant reviewers for the Encyclopedia of Food and Agriculture Ethics. Other than Duncan Hines (this was before he became better known for his cake mix company), most reviews of restaurants were found in the food sections of the women’s pages. The NY Times’ Craig Claiborne is probably the best known early newspaper food critic as he invented the four-star rating system. Jane Nickerson had reviewed restaurants for the NYT prior to Claiborne. Here is a previous entry about food critics and the women’s pages.
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Newspaper Cookbooks: Day 1
I was pleased to see Marion Nestle’s blog post about the cookbook above that I posted about a few weeks ago. The book includes Cecily Brownstone’s Associated Press Cookbook. The 101 Classic Cookbooks is an excellent resource for both recipes and cookbook history. Each day this week, I am going to blog about the cookbooks that newspaper food editors wrote or edited that I would add to the list. Today, I will address Florida cookbooks. I would add two: Jane Nickerson’s Florida Cookbook and Jeanne Voltz’s The Florida Cookbook: From Gulf Coast Gumbo to Key Lime Pie. Jane’s book was published in 1973 by the University Press of Florida. She…
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NCA Presentations About a Food Editor & an Advice Columnist
Jane nickerson from Kimberly Voss This morning I presented a paper at NCA Convention that Lance and I wrote about the first food editor at the New York Times: Jane Nickerson. The food news ran in the women’s section. Eleanor hart.nca from Kimberly Voss In the afternoon, we presented a paper about Eleanor Hart and her advice column that ran in the Miami Herald in the 1960s. It was named a top paper in its division. It was great to tell the stories of these important but often forgotten women.
