Cookbook Quotes by Crescent Dragonwagon

I always have this sense of food as triangular, in that one point is nourishment, one point is connection, and one point is pleasure,…

— Crescent Dragonwagon

Writing is how I metabolize life and how I give and receive.

— Crescent Dragonwagon

There is a water soluble sugar that is in beans called oligosaccharides, and they are indigestible by human beings. They ferment during the digestion…

— Crescent Dragonwagon

All the time we wondered and wondered, who is this person coming/growing/turning/floating/swimming deep, deep inside.

— Crescent Dragonwagon

I like to erase lines between categories. Why separate cookbook writing from writing, healthy from good tasting? I want to be open to possibilities.

— Crescent Dragonwagon

[it's about] being bitter but patient with your own bitterness so you could learn to be wise and be kind of returned to whatever…

— Crescent Dragonwagon

Cooking and eating are among the most important ways we weave days into lives.

— Crescent Dragonwagon

I tend to be a person who, when I get interested in something, I get obsessed by it... What happens to me is that…

— Crescent Dragonwagon

First of all, you want to do the soaking with almost all of the larger beans because that will take care of the gas,…

— Crescent Dragonwagon

To hunger is to be alive and to hope.

— Crescent Dragonwagon

Beans are such a nice, neutral canvas, you can make a big, basic pot of them and then play around with them differently every…

— Crescent Dragonwagon

I was an onion, layers and layers and layers under a thin, papery skin. If anyone had been able to cut me open, my…

— Crescent Dragonwagon