Winnifred C. Jardine
Winnifred “Win” Cannon Jardine was a food editor and cookbook author. She authored eight cookbooks and was the food editor with the Deseret News for thirty-six years. Win tested thousands of recipes on her family and friends. Her obituary said that she “understood the power of food in making friends, mending fences, providing comfort to those in need, and in sealing relationships through the shared experience of eating together.”[1]
She also taught food science at the University of Utah.
Win was born on November 14, 1919, in Boise, Idaho, and lived in Provo, Utah, until the age of ten. Her father then moved the family to Ames, Iowa, and she earned a degree in technical journalism with a minor in foods and nutrition from Iowa State University. She used those degrees as a home economist for the Martha Logan Test Kitchen, Swift & Company, the American Meat Institute in Chicago, Illinois, and later KMBC Radio in Kansas City, Missouri. During World War II, she helped on the home front by teaching homemakers how to get by on their meat rations.
Win was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and served on the Young Women general board three times. She was a member of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. She was on the writing committee for Relief Society homemaking lessons and a member of the Church’s adult correlation review committee.
She cofounded Lambda Delta Sigma, a national Latter-day Saint sorority for women. She held leadership positions in state and national home economics associations. She was honored with an honorary doctorate degree in Family and Consumer Food Sciences from Utah State University.
Win married Stuart “Stu” Bryson Jardine. They were the parents of five children, including a son who died as an infant. Win and Stu served as missionaries in the Canada Calgary Mission.
She died on February 20, 2015. She was a granddaughter of George Q. Cannon and Caroline Young Cannon and a great-granddaughter of Brigham Young and Emily Dow Partridge Young.
