Ruth Casa-Emellos
- 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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- 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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Ruth Casa-Emellos’ 1952 shrimp frittata recipe
Last night, Lance made an updated version of Ruth Casa-Emellos’ 1952 shrimp frittata recipe – we served it with mimosa and a fruit salad for dinner. Here is a link to the recipe. Casa-Emellos was a food tester at the New York Times in the 1950s and 1960s. This dish was part of an effort to re-create the dishes served on the fashionable Italian cruise line, the Saturnia. That story is included in this cookbook about shrimp meals. I am just beginning to investigate Casa-Emellos‘ career and her role in food journalism.
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New Image of Food Journalists
I was working on my book manuscript about food newspaper journalism when I came across this great image of Clementine Paddleford and Ruth Casa-Emellos. They are judge entries in Pillsbury’s 3rd National Baking Contest, Waldorf-Astoria, New York City, in 1951. It can be found here at the Truman Library & Museum. Paddleford was a food writer for the New York Herald Tribune in the 1950s and 1960s. A great book was written about her life – Hometown Appetites. Her papers are in the archives of Kansas State University – where my husband earned his master’s degree. I am currently researching Casa-Emellos who had been hired as a food tester at…
