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Top Food Editors: Day Nine & Nell Snead
After earning a college degree and teaching English in Nebraska, Nell Snead applied for a job at the Kansas City Star while in the city on vacation in the 1930s. She started on the city desk but soon...
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Top Food Editors: Day Ten & Phyllis Tamor
Day 10 of top newspaper food editors 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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Top Food Editors: Day 11 & Dorothy Crandall
Day 11 of Top Food Editors features Dorothy Crandall of the Boston Globe.Dorothy Crandall was the Boston Globe’s food editor from 1953 to 1973. She was the editor for Julia Child’s recipe column in the...
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Top Food Editors: Day 12 and Kay Savage
Day 12 of Top Food Editors 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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Top Food Editors: Day 13 and Dorothy Neighbors (Marion Ferriss Guinn)
Day 13 of top newspaper food editors feature Marion Guinn who used the pen name "Dorothy Neighbors" of the Seattle Times.Marion Ferriss Guinn graduated from the University of Washington in 1929 with...
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Top Food Editors: Day 14 and Rosa Tusa
Day 14 of Top Food editor highlights Rosa Tusa - from Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Palm Beach, Florida.Rosa Tulsa learned to cook from her Italian father and was hired by the Milwaukee Sentinel’s women’s...
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Top Food Editors: Day 15 and Grace Hartley
Day 15 of Top Food Editors features Grace Hartley from Atlanta.Grace Hartley had a home economics degree from the Georgia College for Women in Milledgeville – now Georgia College. Her first job was...
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Top Food Editors: Day 16 & Ruth Gray
Day 16 of Top Food Editors features 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 negative review...
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Top Food Editors: Day 17 & Josephine Gibson
For Day 17, 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 Josephine Gibson...
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Top Food Editors: Day 18 & Clarice Rowlands
Day 18 of Top Food Editors features Clarice Rowlands.Clarice Rowlands was the food editor of the Milwaukee Journal in the 1950s – an interest that she said started when she was a member of the 4-H Club...
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Top Food Editors: Day 19 & Mary Acton Hammond (Frances Blackwood)
Day 19 of Top Food Editors 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 1929....
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Top Food Editors: Day 20 & Julie Duvac Bowes
Day 20 of Top Food Editors 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 on her...
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Top Food Editors" Day 21 & Dorothy Sinz
Day 21 of Top Food Editors features Dorothy Sinz.Dorothy Sinz was the food editor of the Dallas Times Herald from the 1940s through 1969. She died the following year. She was a judge in the Miss...
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Top Food Editors: Day 22 & Clementine Paddleford
Day 22 of Top Food Editors features Clementine Paddleford. Clementine Paddleford earned a journalism degree from Kansas State University in 1921 and had a good deal of food trade and magazine...
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Top Food Editors: Day 23 & Jeanne Voltz
Day 23 of Top Food Editors features Jeanne Voltz.Jeanne Voltz earned a journalism degree from what is now the University of Montevallo. She worked the news beat during World War II and got married to a...
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Top Food Editors: Day 24 & Ann Criswell
Day 24 of Top Food Editors features Ann Criswell. Ann Criswell was the longtime food editor of the Houston Chronicle – from 1966 to 2000. She started the column “Looking for Cooking” her first year....
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Top Food Editors: Day 25 & Julie Benell
Day 25 of Top Food Editors 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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Top Food Editors: Day 26 & Polly Paffilas
Day 26 of Top Food Editors 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 former...
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Top Food Editors: Day 27 & Eleanor Ostman
Day 27 of Top Food Editors features Eleanor Ostman.She graduated from Macalester College’s journalism program and wrote about home furnishings before covering food at the St. Paul Pioneer-Press. At the...
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Top Food Editors: Day 28 & Grace Barr
Day 28 of Top Food Editors features Orlando Sentinel food editor Grace Warlow Barr.I attended Goucher College in Baltimore before marrying Leal Barr. The couple had twins: Gracia and Graham. They...
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