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Discount on The Food Section
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My OKRA Post About German Chocolate Cake
My column about the History of German Chocolate Cake is now live on OKRA, the magazine of the Southern Food and Beverage Museum. Before there was the Internet, finding a new or favorite recipe could be problematic. For decades, home cooks turned to the food sections of their newspaper for inspiration or replacement of lost recipes. Most food editors ran a recipe exchange column where readers could seek and share recipes. The popularity of the German Chocolate Cake can be traced back to a newspaper exchange column in the June 3, 1957 issue of the Dallas Morning Star. On that day, homemaker Georgia Clay’s recipe ran in the column “Recipe…
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History of Newspaper Food Journalism
I am looking forward to presenting “Newspaper Food Journalism: The History of Food Sections & The Story of Food Editors” at the AEJMC Southeast Colloquium. It will be held at the University of Florida in March. For years, historians considered the food sections of newspapers to be either fluff and/or lacking an ethical framework because the food editors were controlled by advertisers. As I began to challenge those assumptions, I looked at what was covered at the week-long meetings of food editors which ran in the 1950s and 1960s. The meetings were sponsored by advertisers and featured their newest products. Yet, the meetings also featured significant speakers and events. A…
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- Allen Nueharth, Dorothy Jurney, Florida food, Florida newspapers, Florida Women's Pages, Jim Bellows, journalism history, Lee Hills
FCH: Jim Bellows, Lee Hills & Al Neuharth
Florida Conference of Historians, 2014 from Kimberly Voss
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Investigating Food Journalism History
As I go through the page proofs of The Food Section, I was reminded how this research got started. My investigation of food journalism began with a Call For Papers for the Icons of American Cooking chapters several years ago. I responded and pitched Jeanne Voltz’s name. I was familiar with Jeanne’s work as the food editor at the Miami Herald and knew that she went on to a successful career at the Los Angeles Times. Instead, I got assigned the chapter for James Beard. As I did the research for the chapter, I was amazed how much scholarship already existed about Beard. It was difficult to believe that culinary…
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Well Behaved Women Making Environmental History
I just learned that my paper “Club Women & Garden Clubs: Well Behaved Women Making Environmental History,” has been accepted for presentation at the Southern Forum on Agricultural, Rural and Environmental History in Winter Park, Florida on March 28, 2014. I will speak about the important work that women in Florida did to improve the environment – especially the beaches – in the 1950s and 1960s.
A website devoted to the history of newspaper women's pages
