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An Onion in My Pocket
An Onion in My Pocket: My Life with Vegetables | Deborah Madison
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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.
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Deborah Madison has long been connected to vegetarian cooking although she isn't a vegetarian exactly, she has just found herself in spaces that have a lot of produce to offer and don't eat a lot of meat. Her spiritual practice at the SF Zen Center included a long stint running the kitchen which would eventually lead her to open Greens in cooperation with the center, and somehow in between there she also worked at Chez Panisse. ↘️

ReadingEnvy All along the way, she's been writing cookbooks that captured several decades of vegetarian cooking in America, from the hippie dippie years of brown breads and lots of cheese to where we are now with our coconut everything and broader access to ingredients.

The memoir chronicles her journey with food, ingredients, cooking, restaurants, cookbooks - and also a deeper exploration of what is enough, what nourishes, and the importance of community.
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Cathythoughts Great cover & title 4y
bnp I still make a recipe from her Greens cookbook: Chickpeas & pasta (with spinach & carrots & cilantro.) 4y
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SamAnne I love her books. Her Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone is my go to for quick, simple recipes. 4y
ReadingEnvy @bnp I just requested it from the library‘s! 4y
ReadingEnvy @SamAnne she knows her stuff! 4y
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#wtamazon

This is the most random Amazon category I‘ve encountered thus far.

LeahBergen 😆😆 4y
MallenNC That‘s definitely random! 4y
JenReadsAlot I live outside of Madison so should check out this category! Lol 4y
Kangaj1 @JenReadsAlot I do too! 4y
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