Jeanne Voltz
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Jeanne Voltz interview
Jeanne Voltz was a groundbreaking food journalist. On Friday I spoke with Jeanne Voltz’s daughter for my work on Votlz’s time at the Los Angeles Times. It was wonderful to speak to someone who knew so many of the great women I have researched: Bobbi Applegate, Marie Anderson, Helen Muir, Dorothy Jurney and Marj Paxson. (I’m rather certain that Voltz worked with Maggie Savoy while at the Times.)
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Jeanne Voltz
One of the common elements of women’s pages were the food sections. One of the top food editors in the 1950s and 1960s was Jeanne Voltz. Voltz was born in Collinsville, Alabama. She went to school at the Alabama College for Women and began a career in journalism in 1940 in Birmingham when few women were in the field. She was self-educated about food and was a fan of barbeque well before it became popular. In the 1950s, she was food editor at the Miami Herald. The newspaper had a large food section each Thursday. Dorothy Jurney, who was known as the godmother of the progressive women’s sections, was overseeing…
