As a groundbreaking chef and beloved cookbook author, Deborah Madison --"The Queen of Greens" ( The Washington Post )--has profoundly changed the way generations of Americans think about cooking with vegetables, helping to transform "vegetarian" from a dirty word into a mainstream way of eating. www.deborahmadison.com.
She lives in New Mexico.
Her books have received four James Beard Foundation Book Awards and five awards from the IACP; she was inducted into the James Beard Foundation Cookbook Hall of Fame in 2016 and the Who\'s Who of Food and Beverage in 2005.
About author(s): Deborah Madison is the award-winning author of fourteen cookbooks, including The New Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone and Vegetable Literacy .
From her childhood in Northern California\'s Big Ag heartland to sitting sesshin for hours on end at the Tassajara monastery; from her work in the kitchen of the then-new Chez Panisse to the birth of food TV to the age of farmers\' markets everywhere, An Onion in My Pocket is a deeply personal look at the rise of vegetable-forward cooking and a manifesto for how to eat (and live) well today.
In this warm, candid, and refreshingly funny memoir, she tells the story of her Life in food--and with it, the story of the vegetarian movement--for the very first time.
But before she became a household name, Madison spent almost twenty years at the Zen Center in the midst of counterculture San Francisco.
As a groundbreaking chef and beloved cookbook author, Deborah Madison --"The Queen of Greens" ( The Washington Post )--has profoundly changed the way generations of Americans think about cooking with vegetables, helping to transform "vegetarian" from a dirty word into a mainstream way of eating
