First of all, you want to do the soaking with almost all of the larger beans because that will take care of the gas, and second of all... they want to be seasoned and flavored. — Crescent Dragonwagon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
All the time we wondered and wondered, who is this person coming/growing/turning/floating/swimming deep, deep inside. — Crescent Dragonwagon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
[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 Copy Share Image
Cooking and eating are among the most important ways we weave days into lives. — Crescent Dragonwagon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image