Jeanne Voltz
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Cartoon of Miami Food Editor Jeanne Voltz
I love this cartoon of Miami Herald food editor Jeanne Voltz and her husband Luther, who was a reporter at the newspaper. It can sometime in the 1950’s.
- Dorothy Jurney, Florida newspapers, Florida Women's Pages, Jeanne Voltz, Marie Anderson, Miami Herald
New Image of Dorothy Jurney & Marie Anderson
Jeanne Voltz was kind enough to share this great 1959 image of Miami Herald women’s page editors Dorothy Jurney and Marie Anderson. Jeanne’s mother was the food editor at the Herald in the 1950s. Dorothy Jurney was the women’s page editor at the Miami Herald in the 1950s, with Marie Anderson as her assistant. When Dorothy moved on the Detroit Free Press in the 1950s, Marie became the editor. Under her leadership, the women’s page section was retired from the Penney Missouri Awards – the top recognition for the pages – because it won so many times.
- 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.
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Cookbook Dedication: Day Two
Most of the newspaper food editors in my book, The Food Section, wrote cookbooks. Many included tributes that were helpful in understanding their lives and their relationships. Jeanne Voltz, food editor at the Miami Herald and Los Angeles Times, wrote numerous cookbooks and her dedication pages were insightful. In The Flavor of the South, she wrote:“Marie Sewell Appleton, who had the nerve to let a curious child invade her kitchenandJames Lamar Appleton, who taught the child to taste.” In The Country Ham Book, she wrote:“To the memory of my grandmother Susan Hannon Sewell, who regarded country ham as the staff of life, and my late husband, Luther, who insisted that…
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- 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.
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Women’s History Month: Jeanne Voltz
Day one of Women’s History Month features the first food editor I ever studied: Miami Herald & Los Angeles Times food editor Jeanne Voltz. I will be blogging about a different food editor from my book, The Food Section, each day this month. Like several other food editors, Voltz wrote cookbooks – including one of my favorites, The Florida Cookbook. Today, Voltz’s recipe for Green Corn Tamales can be found on the Food Network website with a note giving credit to her acclaimed book, Barbecued Ribs, Smoked Butts, and Other Great Feeds. James Beard, a well-known name in food and a contemporary of Julia Child, wrote of the book, “Jeanne…
