Teresa Ann Politano, wife, mother, award-winning author and editor and university professor, died Wednesday, January 24, 2024. She was 62.
Teresa’s book, “Reflections on the Pandemic: COVID and Social Crises in the Year Everything Changed,” was released earlier this month. It documents the impact of the pandemic and social justice movement through the prism of Rutgers University’s community, ranging from medical researchers and scientists to artists, writers and students.
Teresa was a food writer and restaurant critic for The Star-Ledger and Inside Jersey magazine for nearly a decade. She wrote the book, “Celebrity Chefs of New Jersey: Their Stories, Recipes and Secrets,” and was editor of the magazine Edible Jersey.
Teresa won the International Association of Culinary Professionals 2022 award for personal essays/memoir writing for “Don’t Forget the Tomatoes for My Funeral,” published in the University of California Press’ Gastronomica academic journal.
Teresa had a distinguished career as a news editor and executive. She was the former managing editor of The Home News Tribune in Central New Jersey in the heyday of New Jersey’s newspaper wars. She supervised the merger of The Home News and News Tribune.
Other former positions included assistant Sunday editor for The Asbury Park Press and assistant managing editor, United Media, New York City. Teresa won numerous editing and writing awards from the New Jersey Press Association, the Society of Newspaper Design, and the NJ Society of Professional Journalists.
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