Eleanor Ostman Explained

Eleanor Ostman
Birth Place:	Hibbing, Minnesota, U.S.
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Eleanor Ostman is the former food columnist for the St. Paul Pioneer Press and author of Always on Sunday Revisited^[1] and Minnesota Eats Out.

With colleague Ellen Carlson, Ostman won the 1994 James Beard Foundation Journalism Award.^[2]

Biography

She is a native of Hibbing, Minnesota^[3] and a graduate of Macalester College where she studied journalism.^[4]

Career

Ostman’s weekly newspaper column was written from 1968 until 1998 and was called Tested Recipes and it was “ the longest running personal food column in U.S. history.”

Selected publications

• Celebrations to Remember co-written with Soile Anderson

References

1. News: Fleming . Jess . Checking in with St. Paul 'food mom' Eleanor Ostman . 28 January 2023 . Pioneer Press . September 10, 2014.
2. News: Woltman . Nick . Ellen Carlson, James Beard award-winning former Pioneer Press columnist, dies at 93 . 28 January 2023 . Pioneer Press . July 21, 2022.
3. News: Tyssen . Linda . Finnish Americans and Friends a success story of rejuvenation . 28 January 2023 . Mesabi Tribune . June 10, 2020.
4. News: Patrice . Cooking and writing it old-school with Eleanor Ostman . 28 January 2023 . Twin Cities Daily Planet . November 27, 2012.