I am excited to announce that I have signed a book contact for my project “Politicking Politely: Well-Behaved Women Making a Difference in the 1960s and 1970s.” This book will detail the relatively unknown stories of two female political operatives who worked behind the scenes with five female journalists to advance women’s rights during the 1950s and ‘60s. The fight for equality that became more visible in the 1960s had a foundation that began in the 1950s. It was a mix of women in government and women in the news media – at times going back and forth in those positions. The book project is based on an examination of…

We found this on the beach on Sanibel Island. Happy New Year!

Three great reviews for The Food Section have been posted on Amazon and available here. It is available for pre-order now,

Lance & I just learned that our paper “Regional Cookery: The Relationship Between Newspaper Food Editors Spanning the Public & Private Spheres” has been accepted for presentation at this year’s National Communication Association’s pre-conference: Our Place at the Table: Continuing the Conversation and Deepening the Connections between Food and Communication. In 2013, historians and culinary writers are just beginning to study food journalism. Until recently, most of what was documented about food journalism was limited to the New York Timesfood editor and restaurant critic Craig Claiborne. One notable exception is the book Hometown Appetites about the longtime New York Herald Tribune food reporter Clementine Paddleford, written by Kelly Alexander and…

AEJMC: Washington Women Catherine East & Vera Glaser from Kimberly Voss

I was excited to see a Facebook post about this new cookbook, Field to Feast, which is co-authored by the Orlando Sentinel food editor Heather McPherson. It comes out in October. This is from the publisher’s press release: ““We’re putting Field to Feast on our shelf alongside Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Cross Creek Cookery and Jeanne Voltz’s The Florida Cookbook because it’s destined to become a classic. Moreover, it’s  exactly the book we’ve been looking for: a thorough, up-to-the-minute work that tells the diverse,  wide-ranging story of food in Florida (a state without equal for its sheer number of distinct culinary  regions) from the perspective of the people who know it best:…