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:…

There have been many great tributes posted about the death of food writer Marion Cunningham. She was best known for rewriting the Fannie Farmer cookbook. This is from the NY Times obituary: “Mr. Beard took to this tall, blue-eyed homemaker, and for the next 11 years she was his assistant, helping him establish cooking classes in the Bay Area. The job gave her a ringside seat to a period in American cooking when regional food, organic produce and a new way of cooking and eating were just becoming part of the culinary dialogue. Her association with Mr. Beard also gave her the big break of her career, in the late…

I have been writing about Anne Rowe Goldman and her role in creating the DAY section which replaced the women’s page at the St. Petersburg Times in 1969. I have some industry articles and a few of her letters which describe the trailblazing section. Typically, Ben Bradlee and the Washington Post gets credit for creating the first lifestyle section – known as Style. In the book above, Bradlee wrote that the only fight he even got into with Publisher Katharine Graham was about the creation of the Style section. While Bradlee gets mentioned most often by journalism historians,  Rowe and her editors were doing the same things with the transformation…