Top Food Editors
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Top Food Editors: Day Eight & Helen Dollaghan
Day Eight of the Top Food Editors features Helen Dollaghan of the Denver Post. Helen earned a journalism degree from the University of Denver. She was the food editor of the Denver Post from 1958 to 1993, after starting at the newspaper taking classified advertising. She tested recipes in her own kitchen. She was known for breaking ground with on-site food photography such as having photographs taken at the local Squaw Pass. She became known for the recipe Apricot Brandy Chicken when some readers improvised and caused oven doors to be blown off. The cooks who’d had trouble admitted to modifying the recipe by adding extra brandy, then covering the…
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Top Food Editors: Day Seven & Jane Nickerson
Day seven of top newspaper food editors features Jane Nickerson – the first food editor of the New York Times. In 1938, she graduated from the all-female Radcliffe College. The following year, she began her journalism career as an editorial assistant for the Ladies Home Journal. She moved on to the Saturday Evening Post before moving to New York City in 1942 to work at The New York Times. She left the newspaper in 1957 and was replaced by Craig Claiborne. After raising four children, she wrote a cookbook and became the food editor at the Lakeland Ledger in 1972. She also reviewed restaurants for the newspaper.
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Top Food Editors: Day Six & Cecily Brownstone
Day six of top newspaper food editors features Cecily Brownstone – the longtime food editor at the Associated Press. She had daily recipes and a weekly column from 1947 to 1986. She was a close friend and confident of James Beard who spoke on the phone almost daily, at 8 a.m. New York Times food columnist Molly O’Neil called Brownstone one of the “cornerstones of authentic cooking in New York.” Upon Brownstone’s retirement, former New York Times Food Editor Jane Nickerson wrote: “Of syndicated food writers, she’s been the most widely read.” Her papers are at the Fales Library at NYU. This images – from a dinner party at her…
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Top Food Editors: Day Five & Cecil Fleming
Day five of Top Food Editors features Cecil Fleming who was a home economist and a journalist who worked for several newspapers in the 1950s and 1960s. She was married to Quentin Fleming. Cecil Fleming graduated from the University of Washington. She was one of the several “Prudence Penneys” at the Detroit Times, prior to joining the Detroit Free-Press. She was the home economist who answered readers phone calls at the Free-Press. According to food editor Kay Savage, Fleming: “knows why the jelly doesn’t jell and why the meringue weeps.” She went on to the Los Angeles Times and became a food reporter, writing significant nutrition and consumer stories.
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Top Food Editors: Day Four & Carol McCready Hartley
Day 4 of Top Food Editor features Arizona food editor – Carol McCready Hartley. Hartley graduated from Iowa State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in home economics, focusing on textiles. She was a member of Pi Beta Phi sorority. Her first job was in Chicago, at Carson Pirie Scott, the city’s second largest department store, as a member of the Fashion Board, staging style shows throughout Chicago and North Shore suburbs. She married Richard H. Voshall in 1955. The couple divorced in 1961. She moved from Chicago to Phoenix, Arizona in 1961, and went to work for Phoenix Newspapers, Inc., the following year. She became the first food…
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Top Food Editors: Day Three & Peggy Daum
Day three of Top Food Editors features Milwaukee Journal women’s page journalist: Peggy Daum. Peggy was a women’s page reporter in the 1950s and 1960s. She became the food editor of the section in 1968 and remained in the position for two decades. Daum was a Milwaukee native who earned an undergraduate degree in journalism and a minor in home economics from the University of Arizona. She later earned a master’s degree in journalism from Marquette University. Her thesis was a study of women’s pages. Barbara Dembski, the Milwaukee Journal’s assistant managing editor of features, said Daum never abandoned her audience. She said of Daum: “Despite her national stature in…
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