If you'd like Crescent to visit your school or teach a workshop at your next conference, email us at the address on the bottom of this page with the words "teaching query" in the subject line. We'll respond to your inquiry within 48 hours.
Eat, cook, celebrate, read, talk to, or take a workshop with Crescent Dragonwagon, "...one of America's most prolific and versatile writers...an earthy, yarn-spinning woman...".
(Chicago Tribune)
Photos above, left to right: CD, in her editor's office in New York, 2002, the same day the cover shot for Passionate Vegetarian was taken; standing in front of the historic courthouse in Newfane, Vermont (photo by David Koff, 2005); and looking somewhat like a prize steer at the county fair as she holds aloft the James Beard Award prize medallion she'd just won, in 2003.

This site is undergoing a long-overdue spring cleaning. When you see this symbol , we're growing something new. Meanwhile, go visit:

Crescent's writing

Cookbooks which are "...brilliant in their simplicity." (The Village Voice); including the James Beard Award-winning Passionate Vegetarian.

Books for young readers which are "satisfying... superlative." (School Library Journal)

Novels which are "strong, adult... beautiful and significant." (The New York Times) including The Year It Rained

A complete list of her published works.

Crescent's teaching

Crescent's Fearless Writing™ Workshop is inspiring, original, and made me want to get right back to work, " (Julia Child), and her teaching style "...is open, mood upbeat. Every stranger is a potential friend. She's not embarrassed by her lack of academic credentials. Indeed, it's difficult to imagine her being embarrassed by anything." (Chicago Tribune).

Also, come visit CD/s Teaching Index .

Crescent's cooking

Come into the kitchen with CD via her comprehensive Recipe Index as well as Your Cooking Questions Answered.

Crescent's journey: love, grief, love

On November 30, 2000, Crescent's much-loved late husband, the writer, artist, and historic preservationist was out bicycling, was struck by a pick-up, and lost his life. Over time, as CD has navigated grief and helped others to grieve, and also as she wanted to memorialize the sensationally sweet, funny, bright, man with whom she shared her life for 23 years, she eventually started a new web site, Club Ned.
Enjoy your visit here, and please come back often. Crescent wishes you peace, passion, plenty and persistence -- enough to read, enough to eat, and enough love so that you have no choice but to keep giving it away.
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Contact Crescent Dragonwagon at crescent@dragonwagon.com

If you'd like to take a Fearless Writing™ workshop with Crescent, visit Fearless Writing for full details on upcoming workshops. And for recipes galore, errata and corrections, and an in-depth and behind-the-scenes look at her James Beard Award-winning cookbook, drop into passionatevegetarian.com.

Hand checked children books website directory

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