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Clementine Paddleford: The Art of Food Writing Begins

Even amid health challenges Clementine never gives up her dreams.

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Happy Birthday, Clementine!

Happy 115th Birthday, Clementine with your favorite chocolate cake recipe.

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Clementine Paddleford: From the “Little Apple” to the “Big Apple”

Clementine making her early marks in New York City and Chicago.

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Clementine Paddleford, The Kansas Farm Girl

Clementine Paddleford: The American Food Writer’s Early Life on the Kansas Farm.

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The Comfort of Homemade Noodles

To our family, nothing is more comforting on a cold winter’s day than my great aunt Margie’s homemade noodles.

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Pesto from one of my Favorite Guys

Hello, Bert.  How I still miss you.  If Bert Greene were still with us, he would tell you his favorite summer herb was basil.  When he ran The Store in Amagansett on Long Island, he used to grow yards and yards of it in a brick-bordered kitchen garden behind his house.  This is the pesto […]

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Of Panini, Bruschetta, and Tramezzini

You will be craving an Italian sandwich after reading this cookbook!

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Mrs. Chard’s Produce Stand

Have you ever wanted to travel to a place where life is simple, quiet, and steeped in early American history with little sense of time’s intervention?  A place where modern demands and pressures suddenly don’t seem so important?  There is such a place, and one that many Americans have never traveled to, nor even know […]

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