Jane Nickerson was an American food writer, newspaper editor, cookbook editor, and restaurant critic. She created the position of food editor at The New York Times and was instrumental in the professional development of James Beard and Craig Claiborne. She was influential in the modernization of food journalism.
- Occupation
- culinary writer
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- May 19, 1916
- Died
- 2000