Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
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."
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257 Reviews
| From: Amazon Posted: Jul 02, 2008 Type: User Review |
Not Preachy, Not Technical, Just a Good Earthy Story
This book introduced me to Barbara Kingsolver. I liked her writing style so much I went on to read many of her other writings which I also enjoyed.
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jul 02, 2008 Type: User Review |
Inspiring! I can't move to a farm, but I can support my local farmers.
Barbara Kingsolver and her family relocated to a homestead in southern Appalachia and resolved to spend a year eating home-grown or locally produced food. What they didn't raise or grow themselves, they bought from local farms.
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jul 01, 2008 Type: User Review |
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
I enjoyed this book and would highly recomend it to any gardener or anyone interested in feeding their family from locally grown products. It is a good read, fast, and entertaining.
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 30, 2008 Type: User Review |
disappointed gardener
I had read that this book was a bit preachy. "A bit" doesn't cut it, folks, this book is Preachy. Sanctimonious, actually, and too bad, because the idea is great.
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 29, 2008 Type: User Review |
Life changing book
I have never written a review before, but this book was such an incredible eye-opener for me, I felt I needed to share it with others. I was curious how it would be possible for Kingsolver and her family to pull off eating locally for a year - it...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 26, 2008 Type: User Review |
The story parts are fun. The rest is preachy and unreliable.
What a diappointment. The bulk of the book is a preachy synopsis of Michael Pollan's "The Omnivore's Dilemma." There is a holier-than-thou attitude which permeates the writing, so much so that I threw it down in disgust several times.
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 26, 2008 Type: User Review |
Inspiring
ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MIRACLE, A Year of Food Life
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 24, 2008 Type: User Review |
not convinced of the premise, but excellent writing
Barbara Kingsolver and I probably have very little in common. I've read her essay books, and I find that I typically disagree with her opinions. However, more important to me than whether or not I agree with her is the quality of her writing. On...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 21, 2008 Type: User Review |
A GREAT read!
Great read for anyone who enjoys growing their own food or buying locally grown food, knowing their food source, etc.
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 14, 2008 Type: User Review |
food education
A brilliant expose of food production in the US. The light touch makes the information palatable despite the bad news. The 3 writers are honest, keeping the struggle to eat local real. The suggestions are reasonable for most people, allowing the...
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