"I was an onion, layers and layers and……" — 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 bitter, irritating juices would have stung their eyes, and they would have cried. Although I couldn't cry myself, much at the time. But no one would cut me open."
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13 Quotes by Crescent Dragonwagon
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All the time we wondered and wondered, who is this person coming/growing/turning/floating/swimming deep, deep inside.
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[it's about] being bitter but patient with your own bitterness so you could learn to be wise and be kind…
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I always have this sense of food as triangular, in that one point is nourishment, one point is connection, and…
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Beans are such a nice, neutral canvas, you can make a big, basic pot of them and then play around…
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I like to erase lines between categories. Why separate cookbook writing from writing, healthy from good tasting? I want to…
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Writing is how I metabolize life and how I give and receive.
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Cooking and eating are among the most important ways we weave days into lives.
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To hunger is to be alive and to hope.
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One of the things I do as a food writer is to take a classic recipe made with meat, look…
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There is a water soluble sugar that is in beans called oligosaccharides, and they are indigestible by human beings. They…
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First of all, you want to do the soaking with almost all of the larger beans because that will take…
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I tend to be a person who, when I get interested in something, I get obsessed by it... What happens…
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