FCH: Food Editor Jane Nickerson
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The story of Jane Nickerson: First food editor at the NYT & later the food editor at the Ledger in Lakeland, Florida.
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FCH: Food Editor Jane Nickerson
- 1. Jane Nickerson: First NYT Food Editor & Later Lakeland Ledger Food Editor Kimberly Wilmot Voss, PhD Associate Professor, UCF Presented at the Florida Conference of Historians, UCF, 2016
- 5. Food News
- 8. Food History
- 10. Making Bread
- 11. New York Food Community
- 12. 1952 Cookbook
- 13. Many Were Jane’s Recipes
- 14. Adding Jane to NYT History
- 15. Still Working On It
- 16. Jane’s “Retirement” to Lakeland
- 17. Univ of Florida Press, 1973
- 18. Dedication Page
- 19. Mrs. Dorles Musselman’s Chicken
- 21. Jane’s Cookbook as a Draw
- 22. Testing Recipes
- 24. Local Celebrity
- 25. Lakeland Restaurant Reviewing • Jane Nickerson dined one evening last week at an old established eatery whose manager had changed. It was a motel restaurant which Jane had panned pretty badly a year ago. Wanting to do amends, Jane returned hoping to find new management serving better and more exciting dishes. But lo, what did Jane find? The usual fare, higher prices and poorly prepared food. Overly concerned that she would have to again give the restaurant a bad review, she talked with her editors. We agreed that we would forego the review and try it again in six months to see if things get better.
- 26. Jane’s Obituary
Editor's Notes
- Material came from her writing, her NYT personnel file from the NYPL, references to her in books & Cecily Brownstone’s oral history.
- Women’s Pages headed by Dorothy Jurney
- In addition to jobs as a
- When Nickerson reviewed restaurants, her dinner partners often included popular chef and cookbook author James Beard and longtime Associated Press food editor Cecily Brownstone
- According to the New York Times food editor Jane Nickerson, there were more than 21,000 restaurants in her city by 1949. She wrote: “They serve to the city’s residents and guest foods in so many languages as to rob the city of any one set of distinctive dishes.” She went on mention Polish, French, Italian, Chinese, and German restaurants (Tracy, 1952, 143).
- Nickerson leaves the NYT for Lakeland in 1957; she is replaced by Craig Claiborne – who was not Jane’s or James Beards’ first choice.