![]() ![]() She discovered, not before she began the memoir but in the course of writing it, that nourishment, deep nourishment, is what matters most to her about food. ![]() “The first try was in the distant past,” she said, “at Hedgebrook, a Washington State writers retreat.” Much later, as she started writing what would become An Onion in My Pocket, she had articulated a guiding question for herself: “What is it about food that interests me, that really matters to me?” This book brings to fruition numerous attempts over many years to write a memoir, Madison told me on a hot August afternoon over chilled turmeric, lemon, and ginger tea at her Galisteo home. It recounts her changing relationship to food as eater, chef, author, and activist from childhood to the present. ![]() Now comes her memoir, An Onion in My Pocket: My Life with Vegetables. ![]() Her work has earned many highly prized awards, including her 2016 induction into the James Beard Foundation Cookbook Hall of Fame. She is probably best known for Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone, first published in 1997 and revised and expanded in 2014. Deborah Madison has published fourteen cookbooks in a span of thirty years, beginning in 1987 with The Greens Cook Book and, most recently, in 2017, In My Kitchen. ![]()
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