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 Crescent
Dragonwagon
is
the author of 40 books, including cookbooks (Dairy Hollow House Soup
& Bread, a Julia Child Award and James Beard Award nominee, has sold
over 260,000 copies), children’s books (Half a Moon &
One Whole Star, a Coretta Scott King Award-winner), and novels (The
Year It Rained, a New York Times Notable).
She has also written for periodicals ranging from Cosmopolitan
to Fine Cooking to Lear's,
Mode, and the New York Times Book Review.
Her
forthcoming Crescent Dragonwagon's Vegetarian Kitchen will
be published by Workman Publishing in 2001 and is described by its
editor as "in effect a vegetarian Joy of Cooking."
It
will come out at about the same time as three new children's books, The
Sun Begun, And Then It Rained/And Then the Sun Came, (Simon
& Schuster) and Sack of Potatoes (Marshall Cavendish).
She
has been a spokesperson for the California Almond Board and Le Creuset,
and is one of the top ten most-requested speakers at the
International Association of Culinary Professionals. She has appeared on
Good Morning America, CNN's On the Menu, and TVFN.
(CD kneels in a
then-new herb garden, right)
Her food—she
served brunch to a thousand at President Clinton's first Inaugural—was
proclaimed the best of Inaugural Week by the New York Times. She
has the probably unique distinction of having prepared and served
cornbread to both a president (Bill Clinton) and a royal (Princess
Elizabeth of Yugoslavia).
With
her husband, the writer and historic preservationist
Ned
Shank, she co-founded Dairy Hollow House, a country inn and
restaurant in the Ozark Mountains, which was acclaimed in such
publications as Bon Appetit, Gourmet, and Conde
Nast Traveler, and was named one of America's four best country
inns by USA Today. The two closed the inn in 1998 to found the
nonprofit Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow (http://www.writerscolony.org.)
She has been a speaker at dozens of conferences for such groups as
International Association of Culinary Professionals, Professional
Association of Innkeepers International, the International Reading
Association, and the American Library Association.
Crescent
Dragonwagon's Homepage:
www.dragonwagon.com
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