- Clementine Paddleford, Florida Conference of Historians, Florida food, Florida history, food editors, food history, food journalism
Clementine Paddleford & The Gasparilla Cookbook
I have been working on my paper for the Florida Conference of Historians about the Tampa Junior League and its publication, The Gasparilla Cookbook. The conference is less than 2 weeks away. First published in 1961, the cookbook has been a big success. After many reprintings, it celebrated its 50th birthday in 2011. Part of the success has been because of the coverage by newspaper food editor Clementine Paddleford. She did not typically write about cookbooks so this story was unique. Thanks to the archivist at Kansas State University who helped me find it.
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Great Food History Story in Austin American-Statesman
I truly appreciate this Austin American-Statesman story about my book The Food Section. A great lead: “Kimberly Wilmot Voss admits that her 2014 book “The Food Section” was motivated in part by spite. The University of Central Florida associate professor had long studied journalism history with a focus on women’s pages, whose coverage of the four F’s — family, food, fashion and finishing, called “soft news” — has long been dismissed among most journalism historians as unimportant or irrelevant.” I also loved this quote: “These women were considered nothing,” Voss says. “They were real journalists and home economists, but they certainly weren’t corrupt and they were nobody’s fool.” I also…
- Dorothy Jurney, Florida history, Florida newspapers, Helen Muir, Marie Anderson, Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Helen Muir’s Miami Tea Parties
I am working on one of my papers for the 2015 Florida Conference of Historians that I will be presenting next month in Lakeland. It’s called “Miami Maven Helen Muir: Writer, Historian, Advocate & Tea Party Host.” I went through Muir’s papers at the University of Miami a few years ago. Muir held annual tea parties for her friends who sometimes came from across the country to reunite. In this photo are women’s page journalists Marie Anderson and Dorothy Jurney.
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Talking about The Food Section
I had a great time talking about The Food Section on the radio program A Taste of the Past. The interview is now available as a podcast, available here.
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