Deborah Madison has been hailed as one of the most creative cooks in America.

A champion of cooking that’s tasty, beautiful, and healthful, Deborah Madison got her start cooking at the San Francisco Zen Center in the 1970s. She later cooked at Chez Panisse in Berkeley and then became the founding chef at the seminal vegetarian restaurant Greens in San Francisco.

Madison is widely credited with helping to make vegetarian cooking both accessible and delicious, and is a pioneer in the local food movement.

She’s the author of The Savory Way, which won the award for Cookbook of the Year in 1990 by the International Association of Culinary Professionals, and The Greens Cookbook.

The founding chef of the Greens restaurant, Madison received the M.F.K. Fisher Mid-Career Award in 1994.

Her articles appear in Saveur, Fine Cooking, Kitchen Garden, and Gourmet, and she writes a monthly column for Eating Well.

She has been a board member of the Santa Fe Area Farmer’s Market for the past six years in Santa Fe, where she lives with her husband, Patrick McFarlin.

Other books:
Local Flavors

A Santa Fe, New Mexico based chef, author, Native foods historian and photographer Lois Ellen Frank was born and raised on Long Island, New York and her first career experiences were as a professional cook and organic gardener.

She is a featured cooking instructor at the Santa Fe School of Cooking where she teaches about Native American foods of the Southwest. Guest Chef appearances have taken her to many famous restaurants around the country where she, with Native Chef Walter Whitewater (Diné) have prepared delicious menus from the foods she has studied. She continues to teach about foods as a guest chef, lecturer, and instructor Nationally.

Books: Foods of the Southwest Indian Nations (Amazon)

Articles: American Indians Bring Southwestern Native Cuisine to New York City

Photography: Lois Ellen Frank Photography