Deborah Madison is the award-winning author of fourteen cookbooks, including The New Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone and Vegetable Literacy. 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. She lives in New Mexico.www.deborahmadison.com
“More than a memoir, this is a history of America’s culinary
coming-of-age.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“The intersections of food and spirituality are under-explored
topics in American literature. Nourishment can be about more than
an inventive recipe or a dazzling meal. Madison’s reflections
remind us of larger, slipperier kinds of hunger that call to be
satisfied.” —Los Angeles Times
“A true delight . . . [Madison] uncovers her love for all real
foods, peeling off layer by layer like an onion, recounting her own
personal, culinary, and gardening experiences and adventures with
family and friends.” —Lidia Bastianich
“Thoughtful and thought-provoking. . . . A firsthand look at
America’s farm-to-table ‘food revolution.’” —The Seattle Times
“Full of surprises. . . . Above all, [Madison] doesn’t believe in
imposing beliefs on others. . . . A lesson learned from the
monastery . . . and one of many in this insightful memoir.” —The
Wall Street Journal
"I felt like Deborah Madison was breaking a trail for me when I
came to the San Francisco Zen Center in 1974, and she continues to
this day. Her food is tantalizing and nourishing, and her
prose is breezy, lucid, and as beautiful as her presentations on
the plate.” —Peter Coyote, Zen priest, actor, and author of
Sleeping Where I Fall and The Rainman’s Third Cure
“Captivating. . . . Refreshingly undogmatic.” —Jessica Zack, San
Francisco Chronicle
“A welcome read from a master food writer who has . . . changed the
way we think, shop, eat and cook.” —The Independent
“I dare you to cut into any part of this edible memoir and not eat
the whole thing in one ravenous gulp.” —Betty Fussell, writer, food
historian, and author of Eat, Live, Love, Die: Selected Essays
“Offering food is a gesture of kindness and one of sharing. Making
a meal with thought and care, whether to share it with others or
it’s just for yourself, is a big part of what An Onion in My Pocket
is about.” —The Santa Fe New Mexican
“[An] honest, beguiling memoir. . . . A layered, intimate look at
Zen life, the making of a soulful, artful chef and the genesis and
growth of a writer. It’s also an ode to nourishment, sustenance and
gratitude for the earth’s bounty, vegetal and otherwise.”
—BookPage
“Mouthwatering. . . . Once upon a time, the word ‘vegetarian’
exclusively conjured up images of bland tofu and boiled
veggies—then chef Deborah Madison came along and all of that
changed.” —Shape Magazine
“[Madison’s] delicious memoir is a story about flavor, sustenance,
and nurturing at their purest.” —Elissa Altman, author of
Motherland and Poor Man’s Feast
“The stories spill over with intimate recollections about growing,
choosing, cooking, eating, and sharing the goodness and freshness
of seasonal and heritage varieties of vegetables.” —The Albuquerque
Journal
“A riveting account of how Deborah Madison’s previous twenty-year
incarnation as a serious student of Zen Buddhism prepared her to
become the consummate vegetarian cook and cookbook writer.” —Marion
Nestle, Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health,
Emerita, New York University, and author of Food Politics
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