Carol Brock, Full Interview

Collection: Queens Memory Collection at the Archives at Queens Library: Carol Brock

Date: Time Period: 1923 - 2015; 2015-03-12; Interview recorded: March 12, 2015 Material: Digital audio recording made using Zoom H2 digital recorder and Audacity. Dimension: Total running time: 1:14:51

Creator: Carol Brock interviewed by Lori Wallach Identifier: aql:19381 qmp-cb-full-000008

Description: Carol Lang Brock was born in Corona but spent most of her childhood in Beechhurst. After graduating from Queens College with a degree in home economics, she began a highly successful career in food journalism that included positions with Good Housekeeping magazine, Parents magazine, the New York Daily News and the Queens Times/Ledger. She and her husband eventually bought a home in the Douglas Manor section of Douglaston, where she still resided at the time of this interview. Carol’s memories from her earliest years are filled with references to food and gardening, two important subjects that helped shape her career and influenced her experiences of life in Queens. Carol passed away in 2020 at the age of 96.

Title : Carol Brock, Full Interview

Collection : aql:20455; aql:19462

Creator : Carol Brock interviewed by Lori Wallach

Date : Time Period: 1923 - 2015; 2015-03-12; Interview recorded: March 12, 2015

Summary/Description : Carol Lang Brock was born in Corona but spent most of her childhood in Beechhurst. After graduating from Queens College with a degree in home economics, she began a highly successful career in food journalism that included positions with Good Housekeeping magazine, Parents magazine, the New York Daily News and the Queens Times/Ledger. She and her husband eventually bought a home in the Douglas Manor section of Douglaston, where she still resided at the time of this interview. Carol’s memories from her earliest years are filled with references to food and gardening, two important subjects that helped shape her career and influenced her experiences of life in Queens. Carol passed away in 2020 at the age of 96.

Subject : Neighborhoods; Cooking; Restaurants; College students; Home economics; Queens College (New York, N.Y.)

Relation : Queens Memory Collection at the Archives at Queens Library: Carol Brock

Rights : Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.

Coverage : Locations discussed: Beechhurst, Queens, NY Douglaston (New York, N.Y.) Beechhurst (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.)

Type : Oral history

Format : Digital audio recording made using Zoom H2 digital recorder and Audacity.; Total running time: 1:14:51

Identifier : aql:19381 qmp-cb-full-000008