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The Story of Clementine Paddleford, the Forgotten Food Writer Who Chronicled How America Ate
Gotham
September 2008
On Sale: September 18, 2008
352 pages
ISBN: 1592403891
EAN: 9781592403899
Hardcover
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The rollicking biography of Clementine Paddleford: “a go-
anywhere, taste-anything, ask-everything kind of reporter
who traveled more than 50,000 miles a year in search of
stories. . . . matched as a regional-food pioneer only by
James Beard.” (R. W. Apple , Jr., The New York Times) In Hometown Appetites, an award-winning food writer and a
leading university archivist come together to revive the
legacy of the most important food writer you have never
heard of. Clementine Paddleford was a Kansas farm girl who
grew up to chronicle America’s culinary habits. Her weekly
readership at the New York Herald Tribune topped 12 million
during the 1950s and 1960s and she earned a salary of
$250,000. Yet twenty years after “America’s bestknown food
editor” passed away, she had been forgotten— until now. At a time when few women worked outside the home,
Paddleford flew her own Piper Cub to meet her readers and
find out what was for dinner. Before Paddleford, newspaper
food sections were dull primers on home economy. But she
changed all of that, composing her own brand of sassy,
unerringly authoritative prose designed to celebrate
regional home cooking. Her magnum opus, a book called How
America Eats, published in 1960, reveals an appetite for
life that was insatiable. This book restores Paddleford’s
name where it belongs: in the pantheon alongside those of
James Beard and Julia Child. It’s a five-star read in the
spirit of national bestsellers such as Heat and The United
States of Arugula.
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