Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.)
by: Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver, Steven L. Hopp
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Author Barbara Kingsolver and her family abandoned the industrial-food pipeline to live a rural life—vowing that, for one year, they'd only buy food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle is an enthralling narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat.
Author Barbara Kingsolver and her family abandoned the industrial-food pipeline to live a rural life—vowing that, for one year, they'd only buy food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle is an enthralling narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat.
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- Pretentious and preachy
I really wanted to like this book. I agree with the author in that as a culture we've clearly gotten out of touch with living off the land and have become a fast food society. But I struggled to even get through the first chapter. The tone of the book is much too preachy and pretentious giving it a "holier than thou" feel. It's hard to get past that.
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- You Take the Good, You Take the Bad
I'm only halfway through Kingsolver's book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, so it's possible I will have a skewed opinion.
Anyway, Kingsolver opened my eyes to the plight of America's food problem.I'd heard of things like HFCS (high fructose corn syrup), but I'd never given it much thought.I sure will now.I appreciated her discourses about the garden, the cheesemaking, etc.The information about transportation costs, etc. given in the sidebars by Steven Hopp was excellent.I will, ... Read More
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- True Inspiration
This book was a complete inspiration to get better connections with our food. As years go on, it seems we've gotten further and further away from thinking about where our food comes from. This completely dials you in to the locavore movement, and just enjoying cooking/gardening again or in a new light. A great read for anyone who cares about what they put in their body!
Rating: - Don't Believe the Hype
While the author makes many valid points about the benefits of consuming locally grown food, she is guilty of one (literally) fatal error: eating animals for food is neither necessary nor healthy for humans, the environment, or, of course, the animals themselves.
Moving from a vegetarian diet to a flesh-based diet is not progress, either physically or spiritually, and teaching children that slaughterhouses are bad, yet killing and eating animals whom they "know" is perfectly acceptable, ... Read More
Rating: - Terrific book!
Barbara Kingsolver has struck a wonderful balance among educating readers about gardening, slow food, food science and telling a great tale of a family's adventure of local eating. The recipes are great, too!
What a revelation to learn that we have all been anesthetized by the large corporations, whether they be the corporations that produce processed food, or the seed companies with their genetically modified terminator genes in the seeds.
I thoroughly enjoyed the book and ... Read More
- Pretentious and preachyI really wanted to like this book. I agree with the author in that as a culture we've clearly gotten out of touch with living off the land and have become a fast food society. But I struggled to even get through the first chapter. The tone of the book is much too preachy and pretentious giving it a "holier than thou" feel. It's hard to get past that.
- You Take the Good, You Take the BadI'm only halfway through Kingsolver's book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, so it's possible I will have a skewed opinion.
Anyway, Kingsolver opened my eyes to the plight of America's food problem.I'd heard of things like HFCS (high fructose corn syrup), but I'd never given it much thought.I sure will now.I appreciated her discourses about the garden, the cheesemaking, etc.The information about transportation costs, etc. given in the sidebars by Steven Hopp was excellent.I will, ... Read More
- True InspirationThis book was a complete inspiration to get better connections with our food. As years go on, it seems we've gotten further and further away from thinking about where our food comes from. This completely dials you in to the locavore movement, and just enjoying cooking/gardening again or in a new light. A great read for anyone who cares about what they put in their body!
- Don't Believe the HypeWhile the author makes many valid points about the benefits of consuming locally grown food, she is guilty of one (literally) fatal error: eating animals for food is neither necessary nor healthy for humans, the environment, or, of course, the animals themselves.
Moving from a vegetarian diet to a flesh-based diet is not progress, either physically or spiritually, and teaching children that slaughterhouses are bad, yet killing and eating animals whom they "know" is perfectly acceptable, ... Read More
- Terrific book!Barbara Kingsolver has struck a wonderful balance among educating readers about gardening, slow food, food science and telling a great tale of a family's adventure of local eating. The recipes are great, too!
What a revelation to learn that we have all been anesthetized by the large corporations, whether they be the corporations that produce processed food, or the seed companies with their genetically modified terminator genes in the seeds.
I thoroughly enjoyed the book and ... Read More
