women and journalism
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2014 Food Culture & History Catalog
I was pleased to see the great treatment in the Rowman & Littlefield 2014 Food Culture and History Catalog. The Food Section is featured on page seven.
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Food Studies Presentation: Ohio Food Editor History
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The Food Section Pinterest Board
Wonder what the women from The Food Section: Newspaper Women and the Culinary Community look like? Check out my Pinterest board with images of the food editors.
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Food Studies Presentation: Ohio Food Editor History
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Florida Women’s Page Journalism Publications
I was inspired to put together a list of my publications about Florida women’s page journalists from the 1950’s and 1960’s after re-reading the book Orange Journalism which overlooked Florida women’s pages. The photo above is of the women’s page department of the Miami Herald in the 1950’s. It includes Marie Anderson, Robert Applegate and Dorothy Jurney.
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Vivian Castleberry Column
The Dallas Morning News featured a great column by longtime Dallas women’s page editor Vivian Castleberry. Lance & I are working on a book about Vivian’s life and career.
- Cecily Brownstone, food editors, food history, food journalism, Jane Nickerson, journalism history, women and journalism
James Beard & Female Newspaper Food Editors
This photo was posted on the Fales’ library’s Facebook wall. This is the caption: James Beard, Irma Rombauer, Cecily Brownstone, Clementine Paddleford and other guests at Cecily’s Jane Street home in the 1940s. It is likely that James Beard would be saddened how much his story has overshadowed the women he surrounded himself with during his career. The women who promoted his career and kept his counsel, such as Jane Nickerson and Cecily Brownstone, have been marginalized in culinary history. As Beard’s biographer, Evan Jones, wrote: “Jim was not a heterosexual, but he was a ladies’ man, and he earned deep affection from women of his own and other persuasions.”…
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2013 Women, Journalism & History Books
Below are my recommendations for the most interesting 2013 books about women, journalism and history: Tracy Lucht’s Sylvia Porter: America’s Original Personal Finance Columnist Lynn Povich’s The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace. Released in paperback in 2013. Washington Post Cookbook – the newspaper’s first cookbook.m It includes several recipes from the Post’s first food editor, Elinor Lee. Maurine H. Beasley’s Women of the Washington Press: Politics, Prejudice, and Persistence Eileen M. Wirth’s From Society Page to Front Page: Nebraska Women in Journalism My book: The Food Section: Newspaper Women and the Culinary Community. It is available for pre-order now.
