Top Food Editors
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Top Food Editors: Day 26 & Polly Paffilas
Day 26 of Top Food Editors features Polly Paffilas, the longtime food editor at the Akron Beacon Journal. According to her obituary:“”Polly was one of the grand dames of journalism,’ said her former longtime colleague Mickey Porter. “She’d tackle any kind of story.”Her newspaper career covered more than 45 years before she retired in 1987. She and colleague Frances B. Murphey, who died in 1998, broke into the business as temporary hires through Manpower. When the staff was short in the newsroom during World War II, they were called in. It was a male-dominated business when Miss Paffilas signed on in 1942, in the low-tech days of pencils, typewriters and…
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Top Food Editors: Day 25 & Julie Benell
Day 25 of Top Food Editors features Julie Benell. Julie Benell, a reporter and editor on food who worked 25 years at the Dallas Morning News. Benell, a native of San Antonio, was a former concert pianist who switched to the stage and later to performances on radio and television. She was the author of several cookbooks, including the popular Let’s Eat at Home. She had a daily television show about food and fashion for 15 years while she was at the newspaper. It was her show that was interrupted when President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. She judged the 1962 great national Cookout Championship for Men Only in Hawaii,…
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Top Food Editors: Day 24 & Ann Criswell
Day 24 of Top Food Editors features Ann Criswell. Ann Criswell was the longtime food editor of the Houston Chronicle – from 1966 to 2000. She started the column “Looking for Cooking” her first year. She described it as a “backyard type of discussion about cooking.” She reviewed restaurants, wrote several cookbooks, and judged the Pillsbury Bake-Off. During her tenure she sampled chocolate-covered ants, fried parsley, raw tuna, quail eggs, black rice, rattlesnake, armadillo, and everything that “tastes like chicken.” She raised two children.
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Top Food Editors: Day 23 & Jeanne Voltz
Day 23 of Top Food Editors features Jeanne Voltz. Jeanne Voltz earned a journalism degree from what is now the University of Montevallo. She worked the news beat during World War II and got married to a fellow journalist. She then became the food editor at the Miami Herald in the 1950s and at the Los Angeles Times in the 1960s through the early 1970s. She later became the food editor at Woman’s Day magazine. She wrote many cookbooks and was considered an expert on BBQ and Southern cooking. She was married for most of her career and raised two children. She published many cookbooks – several of which are…
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Top Food Editors: Day 22 & Clementine Paddleford
Day 22 of Top Food Editors features Clementine Paddleford. Clementine Paddleford earned a journalism degree from Kansas State University in 1921 and had a good deal of food trade and magazine experience before she began writing for the New York Herald Tribune and This Week magazine beginning in the 1920s until the newspaper went under in 1966. In 1932, doctors removed a malignant growth from her larynx and vocal cords, which left her with a husky voice. For the rest of her life, she breathed through a tube in her throat, concealed by a black ribbon. She had a popular recipe feature, “How America Eats,” that was turned into a…
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Top Food Editors” Day 21 & Dorothy Sinz
Day 21 of Top Food Editors features Dorothy Sinz. Dorothy Sinz was the food editor of the Dallas Times Herald from the 1940s through 1969. She died the following year. She was a judge in the Miss America pageant in 1964 and 1966. She was also a judge in the Pillsbury Bake-Off. She graduated from Southern Methodist University in Dallas in 1931. She wrote a recipe book for the newspaper in 1964. Her obituary noted her request that her age not be listed.
