Good Food
Clementine Paddleford Tribute
Writer Kelly Alexander pays tribute to journalist Clementine Paddleford in Hometown Appetites : The Story of Clementine Paddleford, the Forgotten Food Writer Who Chronicled How America Ate. Paddleford documented regional American food while she worked for the New York Hearld Tribune and commanded a readership of 12 million people a week.
By Evan Kleiman • • 1 min readWriter Kelly Alexander pays tribute to journalist Clementine Paddleford in Hometown Appetites: The Story of Clementine Paddleford, the Forgotten Food Writer Who Chronicled How America Ate. Paddleford documented regional American food while she worked for the New York Hearld Tribune and commanded a readership of 12 million people a week. Housed at The Hale Library at Kansas State University, the Clementine Paddleford Papers (1920 - 1967) is a collection that includes menus, diaries, photographs, 25 scrapbooks, and more than 100 boxes of clippings as well as other memorabilia.
Photo credit: Kansas State University Archives
Apple Dumplings
Yields: 6 servings
1 cup sifted all-purpose flour
2 tsps baking powder
¼ tsp salt
2 eggs
1/3 cup light cream
2 cups boiling water
3 medium apples, peeled, cored, and cut into 12 slices each (about 6 cups sliced apples)
¼ cup butter
½ cup sugar
1 tsp lemon juice
Music break: Thousand Galaxies by Jean Jacques Robert
