Writing Your Life Through the Lens of Food with Deborah Madison

Event Description

Learn the simple rules of writing recipes, from fundamentals to head notes, the best part of a recipe.  This workshop delves into the details of food writing to encourage students to compile a cookbook for family and friends and include a memoir of their personal experiences that they would like to share.

Deborah Madison grew up in a California walnut orchard.  Having a dad who grew a great garden meant that farms and food were in her sights from the start.  Since her years at Greens restaurant in the Bay Area, she has been largely known as a cook, writer, writing teacher, and cooking teacher whose specialties are seasonal, vegetarian recipes with strong emphasis on farmers markets produce and heritage fruit and vegetable varieties. Madison is the author of ten cookbooks.  Her most recent is Seasonal Fruit Desserts from Orchard, Farm and Market. Writing, whether about recipes or profiles of farmers and ranchers, producers and cooks, and even eaters, is her way of connecting people to the food they eat.   Visit her website www.deborahmadison.com