An Onion in My Pocket
  • Published: 16 November 2021
  • ISBN: 9780525565642
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $24.99
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An Onion in My Pocket

My Life with Vegetables

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16 Nov 2021
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5 May 2020
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A warm, bracingly honest memoir and an insider's look at the vegetarian movement, from "The Queen of Greens" (The Washington Post), author of Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone.

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. But before she became a household name, Madison spent almost twenty years at the Zen Center in the midst of counterculture San Francisco. 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. 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.
  • Published: 16 November 2021
  • ISBN: 9780525565642
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

Deborah Madison

Deborah Madison was the founding chef of the Greens Restaurant in San Francisco. She has also worked with Alice Waters at Chez Panisse, at the American Academy in Rome and as a contributor to the Time Life Cookbook Series.
Edward Espe Brown learned to cook at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center and is the author of Tassajara Bread Book, Tassajara Cooking and The Tassajara Recipe Book.

Also by Deborah Madison

Local Flavors
In My Kitchen
The New Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone
Vegetable Literacy
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Praise for An Onion in My Pocket

  • "An Onion in My Pocket is a true delight to read as [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 her adventures with family and friends. It's a most timely book and a joy to read." --Lidia Bastianich
  • "I dare you to cut into any part of this edible memoir and not eat the whole thing in one ravenous gulp. To eat Deborah's words as she serves them up is to feast on food, life, love, art, beauty, purpose, and possibility." --Betty Fussell, writer, food historian, and author of Eat, Live, Love, Die: Selected Essays
  • "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. We are all fortunate that she loves vegetables--and healthier as a result." --Marion Nestle, Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, Emerita, New York University, and author of Food Politics