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Deborah Madison
Harvard Book Store's virtual event series welcomes DEBORAH MADISON—renowned chef and author of the beloved cookbook, Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone—joins us for a discussion of her memoir An Onion in My Pocket: My Life with Vegetables. She will be joined in conversation by JEFF GORDINIER, Esquire's Food & Drinks editor and author of Hungry: Eating, Road-Tripping, and Risking It All with the Greatest Chef in the World.
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.
