An Onion in My Pocket

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 s