Eleanor ostman biography
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Cooking and writing it old-school with Eleanor Ostman
Recently I sat down with renowned food journalist Eleanor Ostman, listened to her tales of writing during the final days of old-school newspapers, and connected over our love of rye bread.
Ostman wrote for the St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch when it still published twice daily. “I churned out a hell of a lot of good copy,” she told me.
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In addition to daily food and home economy stories, Ostman’s Tested Recipes ran weekly in the St. Paul newspaper from 1968 through 1998, and those thirty years crown Tested Recipes as the longest running personal food column in U.S.
history. Some of the best of those columns are available in Ostman’s cookbook Always on Sunday (there are a few revisions, try to find the first).
Ostman attended Macalester College‘s journalism program and upon graduation began writing for the home design section of The Press before being asked to write about food.
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