Clementine Paddleford

  • Clementine Paddleford,  food journalism,  journalism history

    Clementine Paddleford: First U.S. Food Journalist

    I just came across information about Clementine Paddleford – considered America’s food journalist. A book was recently written about her (Hometown Appetites: The Story of Clementine Paddleford, the Forgotten Food Writer Who Chronicled How America Ate) and there was a panel about her life at the New School. Here was the description: “Clementine Paddleford was the first American journalist to take food seriously. In her legendary columns for the New York Herald Tribune and This Week Magazine, she pioneered a smart, sassy reporting style that managed to elevate food writing from the dull formulas of home economists to must-read material. Flying around the country, sometimes in a Piper Cub plane,…

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