A rollicking biography of a pioneering American woman and one of our greatest culinary figures

In Hometown Appetites, Kelly Alexander and Cynthia Harris come together to revive the legacy of the most important food writer you have never heard of. Clementine Paddleford was a Kansas farm girl who grew up to chronicle America's culinary habits. Her weekly readership at the New York Herald Tribune topped 12 million during the 1950s and 1960s and she earned a salary of $250,000. Yet twenty years after "America's best-known food editor" passed away, she had been...

In My Year Off Men, Kelly Alexander reveals what happened when she made a One Year resolution to take a year off the search for a man to search within. Her Eat Pray Love-type journey, mixed in with a smattering of He's Just Not That into You humor turned into a guide for her girlfriends who were having a terrible time in the dating scene. Taking a "man-batical" offers a woman a chance to focus on herself for the next year of her life without the distraction of wondering, "What does he think?"-because who cares; this year is all about you Just as Kelly discovered during her year off from men,...

Whether you swear by peaches from Georgia or from South Carolina, there's no doubt that the fruit is sacred to southerners. From the moment the first mouthwatering Elberta variety was grafted in the 1870s, the peach has been an icon of summertime and a powerful symbol of the South's bounty. Peaches showcases the sweet richness of this signature fruit. Native Atlantan and award-winning food writer Kelly Alexander explores the fruit's history, offers advice for selecting, storing, and cooking, and reflects on the place of peaches in southern identity. Peaches includes forty-five recipes...