Women’s History Month: Clementine Paddleford
Day 10 of Women’s History Month features New York food editor Clementine Paddleford.
Clementine Paddleford earned a journalism degree from Kansas State University in 1921 and had a good deal of food trade and magazine experience before she began writing for the New York Herald Tribune and This Week magazine beginning in the 1920s until the newspaper went under in 1966.
In 1932, doctors removed a malignant growth from her larynx and vocal cords, which left her with a husky voice. For the rest of her life, she breathed through a tube in her throat, concealed by a black ribbon. She had a popular recipe feature, “How America Eats,” that was turned into a 1960 cookbook. She was briefly married and later raised the daughter of a friend who had died.
Her papers are at Kansas State University.
She has been described as a Nellie Bly of culinary journalism.
