CD's culinary writings and related achievements

NOTE: this page offers a bibliographical listing only. For reviews and descriptions of, illustrations and recipes from, Crescent's cookbooks, please go to CD's Kitchen.

Cookbooks

Forthcoming

Ultimate Cornbread, fall 2006 (Workman Publishing)

Previous titles

Passionate Vegetarian: Over 1,000 Robust Recipes Plus Notes on Cooking, Eating, Living, And Loving Fearlessly, October 2002 (Workman Publishing) Winner, James Beard Award, 2003. Nominee, IACP Cookbook Award, 2002, selected for more than 25 "10 Best Cookbooks of the Year" lists, over 112,000 copies in print. Please visit www.passionatevegetarian.com

Dairy Hollow House Soup & Bread: A Country Inn Cookbook, 1992, Workman Publishing (nominated for Julia Child and James Beard awards; selected for 11 different "10 Best Cookbooks of the Year” lists, including by the Washington Post, 13 printings, 267,000 copies in print)

Dairy Hollow House Cookbook, 1986 with Jan Brown (Macmillan, paperback Cato & Martin, 1992) World of Cookbooks Best Regional Cookbook Award 1986, L.A. Times 10 Best 1986) Over 30,000 in print. Available, but not through mainstream distribution channels: please visit www.dragonZbooks.com to order the book by mail.

Putting Up Stuff for the Cold Time, Workman Publishing, 1973. A reissued and updated edition of this title will appear in 2008.

The Bean Book, Workman Publishing, 1972. A reissued and updated edition of this title will appear in 2007.

The Commune Cookbook, Simon & Schuster

Culinary Writing, Magazines

Bon Appétit, recipe development, “Flavors of the World: Peanut Butter” (March, 1999)

Fine Cooking, “Cornbread, Speedy Yet Soulful” (April/May, 1997)

Arkansas Times, occasional freelance articles, 1980-1998

Food Forum, 1997 and 1999

New Age, 1977-1978 (food columnist)

With her late husband, Ned Shank, Dragonwagon has also been profiled in Food Arts (June, 2000) for her work in getting culinary writing recognized as a legitimate literary genre through Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow.

Related Culinary Achievements

Teaching

Cooking classes (general public)

Biltmore Estate Cooking School (Asheville, North Carolina, 2003) See the menu CD demonstrated there or the Chocolate-Orange Mousse recipe.

The Cooking School(s) at Central Market; demos and tastings, Dallas, Austin, and Houston, Texas, spring 2003.

Nothing to It! (Reno, Nevada, fall 1999)

The Cooking School(s) at Central Market; demos and tastings

The Parisian Pantry (Springfield, Missouri, 1985-1989)

Peer-to-peer culinary teaching

International conferences of the International Association of Culinary Professionals (1999, 1998,1997, 1995)

Innkeeping / Hospitality

Professional Association of Innkeepers International (every other year, 1986 to 1996)

Keynote speaker at the following regional and statewide innkeepers' associations: Alaska, Arkansas, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Pacific Northwest, Tennessee, Virginia, Washington

Spokespersonships

California Almond Board, 1993 (campaign won a Silver Anvil)

Le Creuset, 1998

Media appearances

Television

NBC Today Show (fall, 2002)

ABC Good Morning America (fall, 1992);

CNN’s On the Menu (fall, 1992);

TVFN Chef du Jour (fall, 1996);

Countless appearances on regional television shows, including New Orleans, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Atlanta, Memphis, Nashville, Springfield, Missouri, Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Little Rock, Dallas, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Chicago, Houston, Fort Worth.

Radio

Michael Feldman's "Whadya Know?" (1993)

Countless visits on regional radio shows, including New Orleans, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Atlanta, Memphis, Nashville, Springfield, Missouri, Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Little Rock, Dallas, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Chicago, Houston, Fort Worth.

On the Net

Named "Chef of the Month" at chef2chef.net, August 2000.

Working Chef

The Restaurant at Dairy Hollow, Eureka Springs, Arkansas, 1987-1998.

Contests

Winner, Hazelnut Board Contest, 1999

Winner, Newman’s Own Recipe Contest, 1997, food professional category

Runner-Up, B & B Taste the Experience Contest, 1995

Judge, Julia Child Cookbook Awards, 1997

Judge, James Beard Awards, 1999

Memberships

International Association of Culinary Professionals

Southern Foodways Alliance (charter member)

International Cooking/Writing Workshops

Fearless Writing in Passionate Italy (2003, 2005).

Sui generis concept development

As co-founder of the Writer's Colony at Dairy Hollow, and both a literary and culinary writer, she knew that no other writer's colony in the world has or had a living-working studio dedicated to the special needs of culinary writers. She understood first hand that such a facility --- one that included not only space for writing but a fully equipped working kitchen for the writer's use only --- would be used and treasured by food writers everywhere. So, she began to imagine it. Over time she developed and fleshed out the concept, then set about making such a studio happen at WCDH. With her late husband, Ned Shank, she clarified the idea, wrote the proposal, co-wrote the business plan, and put together a corporate coalition which included Kitchen Aid, Weber-Stevens, Renovation Style Magazine, and Vanns Spices, as well as kitchen designer Deborah Krasner and outdoor kitchen consultant Elizabeth Karmel. After Ned's death, the project was brought to completion with the original team and the Colony's then-new executive director, Sandy Wright. She, with the then-staff and board, brought in many additional partners for construction and materials, and, with dedication and persistence, saw the project through to completion. View what ultimately became the WCDH Renovation Style Culinary Suite, KitchenAid Kitchen Vieluxe Outdoor (scroll down to find the pdf article). Although Crescent's current involvement with the Colony is historical, the kitchen she first imagined continues to serve visiting culinary writers from all over the world in bringing their projects to completion.