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An onion in my pocket : my life with vegetables
Title:
An onion in my pocket : my life with vegetables
Author:
Madison, Deborah, author.
ISBN:
9780525656012
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Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
xii, 305 pages ; 22 cm
General Note:
"This is a Borzoi book" -- title page verso
Contents:
Twenty missing years -- Sesshin -- Family -- Young life in Dais -- My mother's recipe boxes -- My central valley -- flat and fertile -- Dashi days -- My Buddhist family: living and eating together -- Shopping for food -- Twenty missing years again -- Three nested bowls -- Guest season at Tassajara -- Also in the seventies -- Three diversions before greens -- Starting Greens -- Creating a predictable world -- The menu -- Dinner -- What inspired the food at Greens -- Kitchen lessons -- My vegetarian problem -- Making books -- Book tours -- More about books -- Nourishment.
Abstract:
"From the author of Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone ("The Queen of Greens" --The Washington Post)--a warm, bracingly honest memoir that also gives us an insider's look at the vegetarian movement. Thanks to her beloved cookbooks and groundbreaking work as the chef at Greens Restaurant in San Francisco, Deborah Madison, though not a vegetarian herself, has long been revered as this country's leading authority on vegetables. She 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. But before she became a household name, Madison spent almost twenty years as an ordained Buddhist priest, coming of age in the midst of counterculture San Francisco. In this charmingly intimate and refreshingly frank memoir, she tells her story--and with it the story of the vegetarian movement--for the very first time. From her childhood in Big Ag Northern California to working in the kitchen of the then-new Chez Panisse, and from the birth of food TV to the age of green markets everywhere, An Onion in My Pocket is as much the story of the evolution of American foodways as it is the memoir of the woman at the forefront. It is a deeply personal look at the rise of vegetable-forward cooking, and a manifesto for how to eat well"-- Provided by publisher.
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