Deborah Madison

Deborah Madison, the founding chef of San Francisco's popular Greens restaurant, is the author of nine cookbooks, including The Greens Cookbook, her first, and most recently,Vegetable Soups from Deborah Madison's Kitchen. The Savory Way, Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone and Local Flavorshave all received James Beard Foundation Awards, and the first two were also named the Julia Child Cookbook of the Year by the IACP. A cooking teacher for two decades, a contributor to many magazines, and long involved in the local food and farming movement, Madison is the recipient of many other awards, including the MFK Fisher Mid-Career Award and the Flyaway Productions 10 Women Campaign Award. She lives in New Mexico with painter Patrick McFarlin.