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A southerner, Dahnke was born to George and Eleanora (Hoffman) Dahnke in Union City, Obion County, Tennessee. Her father was a businessman and entrepreneur.<ref>http://tngenweb.org/obion/records-data/biographies-generation-charts/dahnke-george-b-1866/</ref> She was the Director of the Home Economics Department of the Kraft-Phenix Cheese Corp., later Kraft Cheese Co., Chicago, Illinois for almost 40 years.<ref>http://www.kraftfoodsgroup.com/about/history/mdahnkebio.aspx</ref>
A southerner, Dahnke was born to George and Eleanora (Hoffman) Dahnke in Union City, Obion County, Tennessee. Her father was a businessman and entrepreneur.<ref>http://tngenweb.org/obion/records-data/biographies-generation-charts/dahnke-george-b-1866/</ref> She was the Director of the Home Economics Department of the Kraft-Phenix Cheese Corp., later Kraft Cheese Co., Chicago, Illinois for almost 40 years.<ref>http://www.kraftfoodsgroup.com/about/history/mdahnkebio.aspx</ref>


According to her Kraft biography, Marye was educated at Columbia University, taught at the University of Tennessee and after starting at Kraft in the 1920s <ref>http://www.kraftfoodsgroup.com/about/history/mdahnkebio.aspx</ref>later became a home economist for Kraft Foods Group, then known as Kraft-Phenix Cheese Corp. She was known as an pioneering female food marketer who promoted cheese by hosting “cheese talks” nationwide<ref>http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303442704579363183540218294</ref>and for authoring two popular cookbooks, ''The Cheese Cookbook'' (1942)and ''Marye Dahnke’s Salad Book'' (Pocket Books, 1960.
According to her Kraft biography, Marye was educated at Columbia University, taught at the University of Tennessee and after starting at Kraft in the 1920s <ref>http://www.kraftfoodsgroup.com/about/history/mdahnkebio.aspx</ref>later became a home economist for Kraft Foods Group, then known as Kraft-Phenix Cheese Corp. She was known as an early female food marketer who promoted cheese by hosting “cheese talks” nationwide<ref>http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303442704579363183540218294</ref>and for authoring two popular cookbooks, ''The Cheese Cookbook'' (1942)and ''Marye Dahnke’s Salad Book'' (Pocket Books, 1960.


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Revision as of 21:48, 4 January 2015

Marye Dahnke (pronounced Dank),(August 1897-February 1980), was a noted early twentieth-century American home economist, one of the first women to work in the the food industry in that role.[1]

A southerner, Dahnke was born to George and Eleanora (Hoffman) Dahnke in Union City, Obion County, Tennessee. Her father was a businessman and entrepreneur.[2] She was the Director of the Home Economics Department of the Kraft-Phenix Cheese Corp., later Kraft Cheese Co., Chicago, Illinois for almost 40 years.[3]

According to her Kraft biography, Marye was educated at Columbia University, taught at the University of Tennessee and after starting at Kraft in the 1920s [4]later became a home economist for Kraft Foods Group, then known as Kraft-Phenix Cheese Corp. She was known as an early female food marketer who promoted cheese by hosting “cheese talks” nationwide[5]and for authoring two popular cookbooks, The Cheese Cookbook (1942)and Marye Dahnke’s Salad Book (Pocket Books, 1960.

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