restaurant critics
- Cecily Brownstone, food editors, food journalism, James Beard, Jane Nickerson, restaurant critics, restaurant reviewing
New York City Culinary Conversation of James Beard, Jane Nickerson, and Cecily Brownstone
My article “Dining Out: New York City Culinary Conversation of James Beard, Jane Nickerson, and Cecily Brownstone,” has been accepted for publication in NYFoodStory which is produced by the Culinary Historians of New York. In the late 1940s and for much of the 1950s, Jane Nickerson was the food editor of the New York Times . Although she has been largely overshadowed by Craig Claiborne, she was a formidable force in the New York food community. She reviewed many of the city’s restaurants, up to 21,000 in 1949. Often, her dinner companions were food writers James Beard and Cecily Brownstone. In fact, Nickerson introduced the culinary pair who would speak…
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Gender & Restaurant Reviewing
I loved this response published yesterday to a sexist 1961 letter from an university administrator. It was written by journalist and novelist Phyllis Richman. She was the longtime food critic at the Washington Post. This was the part that caught my eye, as she wrote about the mid-1970s: “I co-authored Washingtonian magazine’s restaurant guidebook on the promise that I’d replace the magazine’s critic when he retired. Instead, the editor chose a man who had written nary a restaurant review. I wasn’t really surprised. Besides, in the next year The Post hired me as its restaurant critic. I was the first woman to hold that job at the newspaper, and one…
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Food Studies Presentation: Ohio Food Editor History
- Florida Women's Pages, food editors, food journalism, journalism ethics, journalism history, Peggy Daum, restaurant critics, restaurant reviewing, ruth gray, women's page history
Our Article to be Published in Gastronomica
Lance & I have been going over page proofs for our article. It’s called “Food Fight: Accusations of Press Agentry: A Case for Ethics and the Development of the Association of Food Journalists.” It will be in the Summer 2013 issues of Gastronomica: Journal of Food & Culture. It is a history of newspaper food pages and a case study of Peggy Daum & Ruth Gray’s work. In our paper, we explained:“A regular part of these women’s sections were food pages. These sections were made thick with grocery store and kitchen product advertisements in the 1950s and 1960s. And the food editors had influence. According to a 1953 article in…
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Writing Women into the Curriculum
