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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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Clementine Paddleford: America’s Forgotten Food Writer

Clementine Paddleford played a vital role our country’e culinary history and women’s history.

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The National Festival of Breads Contest

If I click my heels three times, do you think I can go back to Kansas?  I would do it in a heartbeat, especially to “The Little Apple” AKA Manhattan, Kansas, site of the National Festival of Breads contest sponsored by the Kansas Wheat Commission, King Arthur Flour, and Fleischmann’s Yeast.  All involved in this contest […]

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Toto, I Don’t Think We’re in Kansas Anymore… but we will be!

I have an exciting couple of weeks ahead!  I’ll be leaving this week for Kansas (hopefully no tornadoes or wicked witches) where I am meeting up with my daughter Kristina for the National Festival of Breads, a cooking contest sponsored by the Kansas Wheat Commission, King Arthur Flour, and Fleishmann’s Yeast.  Kristina, owner of Cooking Contest Central, was […]

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French Shortbread to “Break and Share”

Have you ever seen shortbread this large?  Neither have I, and also have never tasted shortbread so good.  What you see here is the delightful result of a 100-year-old recipe using only a few ingredients: wheat flour, lots of butter, sugar, fresh eggs, and sea salt; simple and natural ingredients without any preservatives or colorings.  In the past, […]

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Pillsbury Bake-Off #45: Pumpkin Ravioli with Salted Caramel Whipped Cream

It’s the 45th Pillsbury Bake-Off with a million dollar winner and Martha Stewart as host. What could be more fun – except add Orlando to the mix and you have the makings of a magical contest!

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