Onion Revolt

Onions can get short shrift in the kitchen. Even though they add flavor and spice to meats and other vegetables, they are rarely taken seriously as a main dish. Squash and corn are delicious when stir-fried or baked. And you can eat tomatoes raw or stewed. But onions get cast to the side, or mixed in with a whole bunch of other colorful foods. That lack of respect drives some real tension among the class strata of vegetables. Hear all about it in a special matinee performance of Onion Revolt, a one-woman play by Semaj Brown, “story cookbook” author and “vegetable activist.”