Top Food Editors
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Top Food Editors: Day 14 and Rosa Tusa
Day 14 of Top Food editor highlights Rosa Tusa – from Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Palm Beach, Florida. Rosa Tulsa learned to cook from her Italian father and was hired by the Milwaukee Sentinel’s women’s pages in 1953. She became the Sentinel food editor in 1962. She married painter Kyril Vassilev after meeting when Tusa interviewed him for a story. The couple lived in a castle and raised Great Danes. She was a good friend of Poppy Cannon and judged the 1970 Pillsbury Bake-Off. In 1971, she and her husband moved to Florida and she became the food editor of the Palm Beach Post. During her career, she attempted to cook…
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Top Food Editors: Day 13 and Dorothy Neighbors (Marion Ferriss Guinn)
Day 13 of top newspaper food editors feature Marion Guinn who used the pen name “Dorothy Neighbors” of the Seattle Times. Marion Ferriss Guinn graduated from the University of Washington in 1929 with degrees in home economics and journalism. She was the hired by the Seattle Times as a reporter. Soon she was named the new Dorothy Neighbors, writing columns and dispensing food advice. During World War II, when events were held in Victory Square, Guinn presented a number of “Housewives Go to War” programs advising women of ways to help the war effort. Her recipes were included in the 1952 Coast to Coast cookbook.
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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 11 & Dorothy Crandall
Day 11 of Top Food Editors features Dorothy Crandall of the Boston Globe. Dorothy Crandall was the Boston Globe’s food editor from 1953 to 1973. She was the editor for Julia Child’s recipe column in the Globe. In 1959, Crandall covered the first meeting of the Boston chapter of Les Dames des Amis d’Escoffier and remained a member until her death. She earned a home economics degree from University of Vermont. While writing food features for the Sunday Globe, she took classes at Boston University in food photography and journalism. She earned a master’s degree in education from the University of Vermont in 1952. She did food and marketing commentaries…
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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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