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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.
- Cecily Brownstone, food editors, food history, food journalism, Top Food Editors, women's page history
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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- Carol McCready Hartley, food editors, food journalism, journalism history, Top Food Editors, women's page history
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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Brand Names & Food Journalism
In his industry article attacking food editors, Richard Karp wrote that he found four or five articles in The New York Times, out of the numerous articles he examined published over the course of a decade, included brand names in recipes. His accusation is that the use of the brand names was a form of advertising – a violation of journalism’s standards. According to an academic study of newspaper food journalists, editors may have depended on public relations materials for information “they were not spoon-fed by business.” The study’s author noted that newspapers had policies that forbid the use of brand names in recipes. Instead, food editors had a list…
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More About Jane Nickerson & Journalism History
The creation of the 1950s New York food community likely began with Jane Nickerson at the New York Times. She was the first food editor at the newspaper, beginning in 1942. Over the years, she introduced James Beard to the A.P.’s Cecily Brownstone. Those two were often dinner companions along with Nickerson and her husband. It was Brownstone who introduced the New York food community to Irma S. Rombauer, author of the popular cookbook Joy of Cooking. Later, it was Beard who introduced Julia Child to the food community. Yet, in another example of marginalization, Nickerson rarely get the credit in historical culinary stories. Instead, she has been overshadowed by…
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Food Studies Presentation: Ohio Food Editor History
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German Potato Salad: Recipes & Community Identity
When it comes to community and culinary identity, it is often the dish of a certain city that defines the people who live there. For example, consider Milwaukee and German Potato Salad. According to Milwaukee Journal food editor Peggy Daum: “If you are making German potato salad, you already know how. The right way to make it is the way your mother and grandmother made it. You may argue about it with someone down the block, but you don’t call me.” (Dennis Getto, “Daum Retiring as Food Editor,” Milwaukee Journal, Feb. 17, 1988) This was further proven when no recipe for the popular dish was included in The Best Cook…
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