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Orlando Home & Garden Show
Today we attended the Orlando Home & Garden Show. It reminded me of the trade shows that furnishing editors used to cover for the women’s pages – such as Lois Hagen at the Milwaukee Journal or Jo Werne at the Miami Herald. We heard the gardening writer for the Orlando Sentinel speak. Many women’s pages included columns on gardening. I am curious if there was a connection between those columns and the gardening clubs that existed in most communities.
- Dorothy Jurney, Eleni Epstein, Gloria Biggs, Marjorie Paxson, National Women and Media Collection, Roberta Applegate
Happy Archive Month!
October is National Archive Month. I love archives – which we visit as often as we can. Our favorite is the National Women & Media Collection in Missouri. I am writing an article about my discoveries there for the 25th anniversary of the Collection. The NWMC was started by women’s page editor turned publisher Marjorie Paxson. Other women’s page journalists whose papers are at the NWMC include Marie Anderson, Roberta Applegate, Gloria Biggs, Eleni Epstein and Dorothy Jurney. And, most helpful of all are the papers of the Penney-Missouri Awards – the top recognition for women’s pages in the 1960s.
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Jeanne Voltz reference
I was reading through the Recipe Writer’s Handbook when I came across a quote by Miami Herald and L.A. Times food editor Jeanne Voltz: “A good recipe suits the reader to the time, the place and the ingredients; it suits the reader’s skill or will to cook; and its taste meets acceptance by his or her family and guests. A good recipe is a commonsense solution to a reader’s need for food and sustenance.” (p. 190) I plan to interview one of the authors of this book for my work on newspaper food editors.
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In Honor of Blender History
Earlier this week, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel featured this interesting story about the history of the blender – with a Wisconsin connection. Longtime Chicago Tribune food editor Ruth Ellen Church – who wrote under the pen name of Mary Meade – published the Blender Cookbook in 1952. It was one of many cookbooks that she wrote. She was a 1933 graduate of Iowa State University with a major in home economics journalism. The University honored her with an Alumni Merit Award in 1961.
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Women’s Page Editor Margaret Miller
I was pleased to get a lovely email yesterday and to learn about women’s page journalist Margaret Miller. She was an Associated Press reporter from 1944 to 1952 before taking time off to raise her children. She returned to newspapering in Detroit in 1967 as the editor of the women’s section – that would then be called “Suburban Life.” Here is a great column about Margaret and her influence. I liked this: “Margaret was a pragmatist, but one who was skillful in moving business forward whether it be in the day-to-day tasks of getting out the newspaper or in edging forward women’s equality in the workplace.” I also liked the…
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Another The Feminist Kitchen Blog Post
I am excited to have another guest blog post on The Feminist Kitchen Blog. It is available here. I blogged about the need to recognize women in food journalism with a focus on the New York Times’ Jane Nickerson. I became Facebook friends with Jane’s daughter recently. I just love the connections of social media.
A website devoted to the history of newspaper women's pages
