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Crescent Dragonwagon
Fearless Writing: acts (novels, children's, cookbooks), practice, workshops

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Alligator Arrived with Apples: A Potluck Alphabet Feast

A feast for you / a feast for me / a feast that goes from A to Z / a feast for us and several guests / a feasting full Thanksgiving fest! / our table's set / our friends are here / we'll eat from now until next year! Thus begins a rollicking, boisterous potluck, to which each animal brings an alphabetical dish (Bear Brought Banana Bread, Biscuits, & Butter, for instance). ...

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PUBLISHED: Nov.22.2007

The Cornbread Gospels

“Cornbread? I LOVE cornbread!” For six years, that’s the response Crescent Dragonwagon got when people asked her what she was writing about. Over time, she came to understand: Not only is hot, just baked cornbread delicious, it evokes—powerfully—the heart, soul, and taste of home. There is an abundance of satisfying cornbreads, as Crescent discovered when she followed the...

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PUBLISHED: Oct.14.2002

Passionate Vegetarian

Crescent Dragonwagon shares a wealth of recipes and memories with humor and intelligence in her extraordinary Passionate Vegetarian. She promises that "here you will be well fed, well loved, well tended to, satisfied," and 1,000-plus recipes later, that's exactly what's delivered. For 18 years Dragonwagon owned and ran a country inn, where she fed glorious food to...

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PUBLISHED: Jan.05.1992

Dairy Hollow House Soup & Bread Cookbook

CRESCENT DRAGONWAGON IS THE ALICE WATERS OF THE OZARKS . . . turning out a nightly stream of creations wherein the best of country and city converge. -House Beautiful Consistently rated one of America's ten best country inns, Dairy Hollow House in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, is celebrated for a unique cuisine built on such traditional country ingredients as farm fresh chicken,...

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PUBLISHED: Nov.01.1984

Jemima Remembers

ust before leaving for the winter, Jemima visits one last time her favorite places on the farm, recalling the wonderful summer she spent there with her aunt.

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PUBLISHED: Apr.01.1984

To Take A Dare

A teenage runaway encounters both love and loneliness when she decides to settle in a small Arkansas town.

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And Then It Rained

School Library Journal: PreSchool-Grade 4-It's a wet day in the city, with the rain "plum-drum-trum-trum-trumming" onto the streets, buildings, and delighted citizens. Everyone enjoys a break from the heat, relishing indoor activities like reading, cooking, and dancing. Outside, a boy and his father delight in walking through puddles and eating hot soup at a cafe. Soon...

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Crescent's Latest Blogs

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Nov.24.2010 - 11:58 am

I'm Thankful for...Garlic

A close-up of some of our last-year's harvest. Photo by David Koff.

In Vermont, right around when we gardeners harvest squashes, dig potatoes, beets and turnips, and watch the forecast to get all the tomatoes in before frost -- we're also...

May.26.2010 - 9:42 am

napping on a bed of arrows: loss, luck, & love, with guest appearance by Z-Cat & David

Two years after a death, the "my deepest sympathies" are long over and done with; one is naturally expected to have gotten back to, or on with, normal life (though '...

About Crescent

Red Room's "where the writers are." Here's where this writer is: I'm trans-genre'd and as prolific as a zucchini plant. I write for adults. I write for children. I write about food, or more accurately, life through food. I write fiction. And...

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Crescent’s Favorite Books

ADULT FICTION: Deptford Trilogy, Oryx & Crake, The Cazulet Quartet, Cry to Heaven, Rebecca, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, The Death of Vishnu, A Fine...

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Crescent Dragonwagon
Fearless Writing: acts (novels, children's, cookbooks), practice, workshops