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Loading... Animal, Vegetable, Miracleby Barbara Kingslover (otherwise under Barbara Kingsolver)
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. I'll admit that I'm a sucker for Kingsolver's writing, so take the whole review with that as your grain of salt. I loved this book and found it really timely, as I'd signed up for a share in my local CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) and was discovering the benefits of local, seasonal cooking. My only gripe with the book is that at times I found myself extraordinarily jealous of Kingsolver and her family -- lots of land, lots of time, lots of love. Overall, I was thrilled to have been invited to the Kingsolver family's garden and kitchen through this book. (  ) wunderhund | Nov 1, 2009 |  Kingsolver drives home the point that an overwhelming majority of people are uninformed about food origins. The values of understanding food growth, seasonality, and environmental impact are stressed throughout this book. Regardless, Kingsolver does not denounce the folks who grow up without the agri-know how. She, along with her husband and daughter, encourage the reader to research a variety of provided resources, purchase local and organic at every opportunity, and stop and think before devouring a banana in January. This is my first Kingsolver book, and I am enchanted by her passion for food, family, and, well, photosynthesis. At the very least, you'll be inspired to cultivate a small plant, visit a farmers market, or pay closer attention to where that January banana called home (at least where I live in New England :) ). (  ) wineisme | Oct 31, 2009 | I'm halfway through this book and have been for a long time. It's not a quick read but so interesting, and a little overwhelming to hear all the facts about the food we eat. ( ) mamathiessen | Oct 30, 2009 | Written by Kingsolver, her husband and her college-aged daughter. An engrossing memoir about eating locally produced food for an entire year, however it descended into a kind of smug tone that got a little irritating after awhile. Also, Camille's contributions I could have done without and I tended to skip over the factual bits to get back to the memoir. (  ) Elishibai | Oct 21, 2009 | Kingsolver and her husband and daughters take a year off to live off the land in North Carolina. This is a great primer for eating 'green' and healthily. ( ) marient | Oct 14, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0060852550, Hardcover)Bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver returns with her first nonfiction narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat. "As the U.S. population made an unprecedented mad dash for the Sun Belt, one carload of us paddled against the tide, heading for the Promised Land where water falls from the sky and green stuff grows all around. We were about to begin the adventure of realigning our lives with our food chain. "Naturally, our first stop was to buy junk food and fossil fuel. . . ." Hang on for the ride: With characteristic poetry and pluck, Barbara Kingsolver and her family sweep readers along on their journey away from the industrial-food pipeline to a rural life in which they vow to buy only food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. Their good-humored search yields surprising discoveries about turkey sex life and overly zealous zucchini plants, en route to a food culture that's better for the neighborhood and also better on the table. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle makes a passionate case for putting the kitchen back at the center of family life and diversified farms at the center of the American diet. "This is the story of a year in which we made every attempt to feed ourselves animals and vegetables whose provenance we really knew . . . and of how our family was changed by our first year of deliberately eating food produced from the same place where we worked, went to school, loved our neighbors, drank the water, and breathed the air." (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:18 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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