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Hometown Appetites: The Story of Clementine Paddleford, the Forgotten Food Writer Who Chronicled How America Ate
Hometown Appetites The Story of Clementine Paddleford the Forgotten Food Writer Who Chronicled How America Ate Author:Kelly Alexander, Cynthia Harris Meet Clementine Paddleford: Her life was as unforgettably cinematic as her name. She was born on a Kansas farm in 1898 and grew up to become one of the most influential journalists in the world. Her career spanned from the 1920s to the 1960s, and she commanded a huge salary writing for both the New York Herald Tribune and This Week magazine. — &q... more »uot;At a time when few people in Philadelphia knew what enchiladas were and few in Chicago knew what cioppino was, Ms. Paddleford described them both in loving detail along with New Orleans -- style red beans and rice, Lindy's cheesecake, and Hungarian-American stuffed cabbage from Cleveland," wrote the late R.W. Apple Jr., New York Times correspondent and food writer.
Her columns, paeans to the tomato and the strawberry, to lemonade, biscuits, fried chicken and dozens of other dishes, sent readers out of the house to taste the best of the season. And yet, a few years after her death in 1967 all traces of her life were nearly erased. Today, her name is known to just a handful of influential food writers and editors for whom she has, until now, been a cult figure. Hometown Appetites tells her story in full for the first time, putting her back where she belongs in the pantheon of pioneering American journalists.« less
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