The Unsung Influence of a Pioneering Food Journalist
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/07/magazine/lime-pie-recipe-jane-nickerson.html
The Unsung Influence of a Pioneering Food Journalist
Jane Nickerson made Craig Claiborne possible and put the cheeseburger on the map. Her recipe for lime pie is a taste of Florida sunshine.
Florida lime pie.Credit...Heami Lee for The New York Times. Food stylist: Maggie Ruggiero. Prop stylist: Amy Wilson.
April 7, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
“Graduate of Swiss Hotel School Tells of Study of French Cooking.” That was the stodgy New York Times headline one spring day in 1954. “Craig Claiborne, a fresh-faced young man who has just completed ten months of study in a hotel school in Switzerland, enthusiastically talked to us about French cooking the other day,” the article began. “He was eating a lunch that included, among other things, a Martini and a shrimp cocktail. One put down Mr. Claiborne’s choice of such Americanisms to his gladness at being back in the United States, where he plans to write about food professionally.”