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Possibly the most requested recipe at the Dispatch, Johnny Marzetti originated at the Marzetti Restaurant in Columbus in the 1920s and was named for the owner’s brother because he loved the dish so much. This recipe for Johnny Marzetti is from…

Christmas cookies have been a major feature in the Dispatch as seen on this cover from 1946. This continued through the years with Food Editors calling for readers to send in their favorite cookie recipe. They were collected and published in the Food…

Pictured left to right: Mary Pegg, Dispatch Food Editor, unknown kitchen staff member and Lillian Hergesell, Assistant Food Editor in the Dispatch Kitchen located in the basement at 34 S. Third St. Here Food Editors and staff tested new recipes to…

The Dispatch, along with the Ohio Fuel Company, hosted a multi-day Spring Cooking School, first at Memorial Hall and later at the RKO Palace Theater. In this photo, Virginia Hutchinson of the Dispatch, Shirley Nolan of the Ohio Fuel Company, Hulda…

The Sunday Dispatch Magazine premiered on October 7, 1945. It featured stories in color gravure from around Ohio – the first of its kind in the state. Dispatch Food Editor Marilyn R. Beckes developed this recipe in the basement kitchen at the…

Marion Harland was the pen name used by Mary Virginia Hawes (later Terhune) from Virginia. She was the author of several books including Common Sense for the Household in 1871 and Secret of a Happy Home in 1896. Harland was the first name associated…

This straw vote box was used for many years the Dispatch’s early election season polling, which almost always predicted the winner of the election.

Jill Riepenhoff joined the Dispatch in 1985, and became one of its most decorated investigative reporters in her 32-year career at the paper. Hers and Jennifer Smith Richard’s 2007 series “The ABCs of Betrayal” on flaws in the state’s discipline…

Graydon Hambrick was a feature writer at the Dispatch from 1967-1994, covering politics, Columbus City Schools, and Ohio State University. As Action Line section editor, Hambrick raised the profile of consumer issues submitted by readers and in 1979,…

North High School graduate Carl DeBloom started his 46-year career at the Dispatch in 1935. He started the paper’s Washington bureau in 1960 and later served as Vice President Spiro Agnew’s press secretary. His coverage of the ’60 and ’64…