Chowder breathes reassurace. It steams consolation.

- Clementine Paddleford

We all have hometown appetites. Every other person is a bundle of longing for the simplicities of good taste once enjoyed on the farm or in the homet…

- Clementine Paddleford

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.

- Clementine Paddleford

A tiny radish of passionate scarlet, tipped modestly in white.

- Clementine Paddleford

The day has the color and the sound of winter. Thoughts turn to chowder...chowder breathes reassurance. It steams consolation.

- Clementine Paddleford

We all have hometown appetites.

- Clementine Paddleford

Beer is the Danish national drink, and the Danish national weakness is another beer.

- Clementine Paddleford