Author: ALEXANDER, KELLY. HARRIS, CYNTHIA
Title: Hometown Appetites : the Story of Clementine Paddleford, the Forgotten Food Writer Who Chronicled How America Ate / Kelly Alexander and Cynthia Harris
Description: New York. N. Y. : Gotham Books 2008. First Edition. At the height of her career. Paddleford was a popular as Julia Child and as respected as James Beard. Today. she's the most important food writer you've never heard of. 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. Here. the two leading authorities on Paddleford - Kelly Alexander and Cynthia Harris - brush off the dust to reveal one of our greatest culinary figures. With an elegant foreword from Coman Andrews. cofounder of Saveur magazine and restaurant columnist for Gourmet magazine. plus more than fifity of Paddleford's regional American recipes. retested for modern home cooks. Hometown Appetites finally puts Paddleford back where she belongs: in the pantheon of pioneering American journalists; 318 pages; Description: xxix. 318 p.[16] p. Of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-306) and index. Subjects: Paddleford. Clementine. 1898-1967. Women food writers --United States --Biography.Weight in Kg appr.:

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