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Women & Food Symposium
I am excited to speak about some of my favorite topics at the Women & Food Symposium: food, gender, journalism & social media. I will speak about the recipe exchange columns from the newspaper food sections as a form of social media.
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Food Studies Presentation: Ohio Food Editor History
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Vivian Castleberry’s Coverage of JFK in Dallas
The only reporter’s notebook that women’s page editor Vivian Castleberry ever kept was the one she used when she was at the Trade Mart on November 22, 1963. Vivian drove to her office at the Dallas Times Herald early that morning. Her daughter Carol was with her that morning. Carol was going to go to the library and then take a spot along President JFK’s route. She would then take a bus to school. Vivian sent her reporter Val Imm to cover the event at Love Field. Vivian arrived at the Trade Mart and interviewed Dallas Judge Sarah Hughes. She said that she was concerned about the president visiting Dallas.…
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Our NCA Talk: Regional Cookery
Today, Lance & I are giving a talk at the NCA Pre-conference: Our Place at the Table: Continuing the Conversation and Deepening the Connections between Food and Communication. Our paper is “Regional Cookery: The Relationship Between Newspaper Food Editors & Home Cooks Spanning the Public & Private Spheres.” It is an examination of newspaper cookbooks from the 1940s through the 1970s. It builds on the scholarship of some scholars who have found that the act of producing the cooking publication were more feminist than originally thought. For example, a study of the “Lutheran Church Women” in Iowa found distinct feminist actions. The scholar noted the activity of gathering information and…
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Vintage Cocktail Column
My Vintage Cocktail Column in Okra Magazine has been published. Here is a link to it. In my post, I wrote about the Washington women’s page and female political journalists: “In 1962, the Women’s National Press Club issued a new cookbook to raise money for a clubhouse. The book, Second Helping, was a follow up to the group’s popular 1955 publication, Who Says We Can’t Cook! The Washington, D.C.-based female reporters were known for their alcohol-fueled gatherings and their books featured several cocktail recipes. (To get an idea of how much alcohol the journalists consumed, a book about them was titled Drunk Before Noon.)”
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The Food Section Cover
The cover of my upcoming book, The Food Section, has been approved. I love what the designer did with the cover.
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Happy Birthday to Jeanne Voltz
Today would have been food editor Jeanne Voltz‘s 93 birthday. She was at the Miami Herald in the 1950s and at the Los Angeles Times in the 1960s. In her more than forty years as a journalist, Voltz became what one culinary authority described as “the best known food expert you’ve probably never heard of.” Terry Ford, a food editor and a charter member of Julia Child’s American Institute of Food and Wine, declared that Voltz has not been recognized for her contribution to culinary journalism. “She’s an extraordinary person, he said. “Her career goes bicoastal. Her impact and her knowledge is vast. She is very gifted, very crafted. When…
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