Helen McCully
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| Born |
Helen W. McCully September 1902 Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| Died | 24 August 1977 Manhattan, New York, U.S. |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Occupation | food writer, cookbook author |
| Years active | 1929-1977 |
| Known for | mentoring chefs and serving as food editor of McCall's and House Beautiful magazines. |
Helen McCully (1902–1977) was a Canadian food writer, critic and cookbook author from Nova Scotia. She was influential as a food editor of McCall's and House Beautiful and was at least partially responsible for helping to discover the unknown Julia Child in 1960. Besides writing regular columns on food, she used her influence to help promote the careers of many in the food industry, as well as writing her own cookbooks.
Helen W. McCully was born in September 1902 in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada to Ethel Ellen (née Lowerison) and Herbert Read McCully Her family was quite prominent, including a great-grandfather, Samuel McCully an early minister who helped found the Baptist church in Amherst and his two sons: her grandfather, Robert, a prominent attorney and her great-uncle, Jonathan, a Supreme Court judge and one of the founders of the Canadian Confederation. Her father, Herbert, was a dentist and her mother raised the spirited children in an old Victorian mansion at the outskirts of town.
McCully attended Branksome Hall, a private girls' finishing school in Toronto, matriculating with honors in French in 1921. She then continued her education at Dalhousie University of Halifax, studying arts, and followed up with a secretarial course in 1925 at Miss Conklin's Secretarial School in New York City.
The year after her graduation, McCully became a secretary to Marion V. Langzettel, who directed the Froebel League’s school for children in New York City on East 71st Street and within a few years, began working at Andrews, Davis & Platt. She began her career as an advertising copywriter at Lord & Taylor's in New York City. McCully then became a food editor at Bloomingdale's, where she worked from 1947 to 1960. Afterward, she served as the food editor for McCall's magazine for seven years and then spent ten years as food editor for House Beautiful.
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