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Top Food Editors: Day 12 and Kay Savage
Day 12 of Top Food Editors is Kay Savage of the Detroit Free Press. Kay Savage was the food editor at the Detroit Free Press – from 1945 through the 1960s. She wrote several cookbooks and answered readers’ questions through her column “Tower Kitchen Recipe Box” for years. She had a test kitchen and one assistant – home economist Cecil Fleming. Kay was named to the Detroit reporters’ Hall of Fame. In 1955, she married Howard Kennedy.
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Top Food Editors: Day Ten & Phyllis Tamor
Day 10 of top newspaper food editors features Phyllis Tamor of the Cincinnati Enquirer. Phyllis Tamor was a home economics graduate of Pennsylvania State University. She worked as a home economist for a Chicago meat company in the 1950s. It involved a great deal of travel and a daily taste testing of steak when she was in town. She sometimes made presentations under the name of “Martha Logan.” She went on to become the food editor for the Cincinnati Enquirer. She judged several cooking contest, including a 1964 meat roasting contest that was also covered by a Sports Illustrated reporter. She did graduate work in nutrition. She left the journalism…
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Top Food Editors: Day Nine & Nell Snead
After earning a college degree and teaching English in Nebraska, Nell Snead applied for a job at the Kansas City Star while in the city on vacation in the 1930s. She started on the city desk but soon took on the job of women’s page editor after being promised that she could go to New York City to learn about fashion. She also covered food and her recipes are included in the 1952 Coast to Coast cookbook. There were four women on the staff when she was hired and she encouraged the hiring of more women. She trained 16 of them who became known as “Nell’s chicks.” She survived a…
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Top Food Editors: Day Eight & Helen Dollaghan
Day Eight of the Top Food Editors features Helen Dollaghan of the Denver Post. Helen earned a journalism degree from the University of Denver. She was the food editor of the Denver Post from 1958 to 1993, after starting at the newspaper taking classified advertising. She tested recipes in her own kitchen. She was known for breaking ground with on-site food photography such as having photographs taken at the local Squaw Pass. She became known for the recipe Apricot Brandy Chicken when some readers improvised and caused oven doors to be blown off. The cooks who’d had trouble admitted to modifying the recipe by adding extra brandy, then covering the…
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Top Food Editors: Day Five & Cecil Fleming
Day five of Top Food Editors features Cecil Fleming who was a home economist and a journalist who worked for several newspapers in the 1950s and 1960s. She was married to Quentin Fleming. Cecil Fleming graduated from the University of Washington. She was one of the several “Prudence Penneys” at the Detroit Times, prior to joining the Detroit Free-Press. She was the home economist who answered readers phone calls at the Free-Press. According to food editor Kay Savage, Fleming: “knows why the jelly doesn’t jell and why the meringue weeps.” She went on to the Los Angeles Times and became a food reporter, writing significant nutrition and consumer stories.
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Top Food Editors: Day Four & Carol McCready Hartley
Day 4 of Top Food Editor features Arizona food editor – Carol McCready Hartley. Hartley graduated from Iowa State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in home economics, focusing on textiles. She was a member of Pi Beta Phi sorority. Her first job was in Chicago, at Carson Pirie Scott, the city’s second largest department store, as a member of the Fashion Board, staging style shows throughout Chicago and North Shore suburbs. She married Richard H. Voshall in 1955. The couple divorced in 1961. She moved from Chicago to Phoenix, Arizona in 1961, and went to work for Phoenix Newspapers, Inc., the following year. She became the first food…
