Ruth Ellen Church
- food editors, food history, food journalism, Jane Nickerson, Peggy Daum, Rosa Tusa, Ruth Ellen Church
Great Column About The Food Section
I loved this wonderful article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel about The Food Section. I also loved this image of Milwaukee Sentinel food editor Rosa Tusa.
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Food Studies Presentation: Ohio Food Editor History
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Culinary Historians of Chicago Talk
I enjoyed my talk at the Culinary Historians of Chicago: Midwestern Newspaper Food Editors: Ruth Ellen Church, Clarice Rowlands & Peggy Daum.
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Cookbook Dedication: Day Five
Chicago Tribune food editor Ruth Ellen Church, often using the pen name of Mary Meade, wrote several cookbooks. Her dedications added new information yet also introduced a new question. Her 1965 edition of Mary Meade’s Magic Recipes is dedicated to:“For Morrison Wood, whose enthusiastic review of this book thirteen years ago launched its successful career, my grateful thanks.” Her 1962 book Pancakes Aplenty is dedicated to: “My favorite sister, Marian Miller.” Her 1966 edition of Mary Meade’s Modern Homemaker Cookbook is dedicated “For Holly Kapple Field, Young Modern Homemaker.” I have not been able to track down who this woman is.
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Midwestern Newspaper Food Editors: Ruth Ellen Church/Clarice Rowlands/Peggy Daum
Caption: Chicago Tribune food editor Ruth Ellen Church On May 17th, I will be talking about three food editors from my book, The Food Section, at the Chicago Foodways Roundtable. This is the talk: Midwestern Newspaper Food Editors: Ruth Ellen Church/Clarice Rowlands/Peggy Daum Here is the description:This talk is the story of three significant Midwestern food editors from the 1950s and 1960s. Ruth Ellen Church joined the Chicago Tribune as cooking editor in 1936 and oversaw one of the first test kitchens at a newspaper. She published many cookbooks—several under the pen name of Mary Meade. She remained the food editor until 1974 and became the nation’s first newspaper wine…
- food editors, food history, food journalism, food section, Ruth Ellen Church, women's history month, women's page history
Women’s History Month: Ruth Ellen Church
On the second day of Women’s History Month, I am featuring Ruth Ellen Church, the food editor of the Chicago Tribune who wrote under the pen name of Mary Meade for many years. She was the food editor from 1936 to 1974. She was also known as the country’s first wine editor. She graduated from Iowa State University in 1933 with a degree in food and nutrition journalism. The photo above is from the Special Collections at that University. I plan to find out what information they have about her college years. She published many cookbooks during her career that I am hoping to track down. Sadly, she was murdered…
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- Bobbi McCallum, Florida Women's Pages, journalism history, Koky Dishon, Roberta Applegate, Ruth Ellen Church, women's history, women's page history
Working as a Public Historian
I have been asked why I spend so much time doing research when that work is not considered research by my university. My answer is that I believe in public history. I have written before about having to twice as hard to get tenure because I study regional rather than national figures in journalism history. While it does not feel fair, the women I write about were rarely treated fairly and faced much bigger hurdles than my own. I have the usual peer-review history journal articles that I publicize through social media, especially Academia.edu and Linkedin. My article about food editor Jeanne Voltz has more than 560 page views on…
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