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Women's History Month: Elinor Lee
Day 14 of Women's History Month features Elinor Lee, the longtime food editor of the Washington Post. She was mentioned in the recent Washington Post Cookbook. Lee was a graduate of Beaver College. She...
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Women's History Month: Maude Coons
Day 15 of Women's History Month features Maude Coons.Maude Charron Coons was the longtime food editor at the Omaha World-Herald. She graduated from the home economics program at Iowa State University...
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Women's History Month: Virginia Heffington
Day 16 of Women's History Month features Virginia Heffington - a food editor in Florida and California.Recently, the Miami Herald cited a recipe from its 1960s food editor Virginia Heffington.This is...
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Women's History Month: Josephine Gibson
Day 17 of Women's History Month features Josephine Gibson of the Pittsburgh Press.According to the newspaper's photo archive:This photo was taken at Pittsburgh’s Hilton Hotel in 1961, the year that...
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Women's History Month: Grace Barr
Day 18 of Women's History Month features Orlando Sentinel food editor Grace Warlow Barr.She attended Goucher College in Baltimore before marrying Leal Barr. The couple had twins: Gracia and Graham....
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Women's History Month: Dorothy Chapman
Day 19 of Women's History Month features Dorothy Chapman. She had been the women's page editor at the Orlando Sentinel when Barr was the food editor. When Barr retired in 1969, Chapman became the food...
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Women's History Month: Julie Benell
Day 20 of Women's History Month features Julie Benell.Julie Benell, a reporter and editor on food who worked 25 years at the Dallas Morning News. Benell, a native of San Antonio, was a former concert...
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Women's History Month: Julie Duvac Bowes
Day 21 of Women's History Month features Julie Duvac Bowes of New Orleans.She began her career of 30 years as the Food Editor of the Times-Picayune in 1949 under the pen name of Sue Baker. She tested...
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Women's History Month: Mary Action Hammond
Day 22 of Women's History Month features Mary Acton Hammond who used the pen name "Frances Blackwood" for the Philadelphia Bulletin.Mary Acton Hammond was hired as the newspaper’s first food editor in...
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Women's History Month: Kay Savage
Day 23 of Women's History Month is Kay Savage of the Detroit Free Press.Kay Savage was the food editor at the Detroit Free Press – from 1945 through the 1960s. She wrote several cookbooks and answered...
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Women's History Month: Polly Paffilas
Day 24 of Women's History Month features Polly Paffilas, the longtime food editor at the Akron Beacon Journal. According to her obituary:""Polly was one of the grand dames of journalism,' said her...
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Women's History Month: Phyllis Tamor
Day 26 of Women's History Month features Phyllis Tamor of the Cincinnati Enquirer.Phyllis Tamor was a home economics graduate of Pennsylvania State University. She worked as a home economist for a...
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Women's History Month: Nell Snead
Day 27 of Women's History Month features Kansas City food editor Nell Snead.After earning a college degree and teaching English in Nebraska, Nell Snead applied for a job at the Kansas City Star while...
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Women's History Month: Mary Hart
Day 28 of Women's History Month features food editor Mary Hart.The food column "Ask Mary" was written by "Mary Hart," although her last name wasn't Hart; it was Sorenson. Sorenson wrote under the pen...
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Women's History Month: Cecil Fleming
Day 29 of Women's History Month features Cecil Fleming who was a home economist and a journalist who worked for several newspapers in the 1950s and 1960s. She was married to Quentin Fleming.Cecil...
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Women's History Month: Ruth Gray
Day 30 of Women's History Month features food editor Ruth Gray.Ruth Gray became the food editor in 1963 of the St. Petersburg Times and began reviewing restaurants in 1974. One restaurant that earned a...
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Women's History Month: Lowis Carlton
Day 31 of Women's History Month features food editor: Lowis Carlton. I discovered her name in a cookbook I bought, Famous Florida Recipes.She had a bachelor's and master's degree in English from the...
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Roger Smith Food + Tech Conference
I am excited to be part of this workshop tomorrow in NYC for the Roger Smith Food + Tech Conference: The Changing Food Web (social media workshop for food writers)Winthrop Room - Second FloorWhile...
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New York Culinary Community of Jane Nickerson, Cecily Brownstone & James Beard
Here is a link to my blog post for Rowman & Littlefield about the New York City Food Community in the 1950s. The Food Section will be out two weeks from today.
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Midwestern Newspaper Food Editors: Ruth Ellen Church/Clarice Rowlands/Peggy Daum
Caption: Chicago Tribune food editor Ruth Ellen ChurchOn May 17th, I will be talking about three food editors from my book, The Food Section, at the Chicago Foodways Roundtable. This is the talk:...
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