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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- Thank you for sharing your year with us!
Thank you, Barbara Kingsolver, for sharing all your sweat, hard work, enthusiasm, logic, but mostly, joy & knowledge of your family's trek to local, organic & sustainable farming.I greatly admire the book's contributions by your husband, Steven, and daughters Camille and Lily.Your bond of togetherness, with each contributing your heart & soul, should be a family standard to live by for all of us.
Makes you want to buy some land in the country & start this lifestyle too.In fact, ... Read More
Rating: - This Book Just Might Change Your Life!
Barbara Kingsolver is a beautiful writer, whether she is penning one of her memorable novels or writing about the finer points of biology. In this nonfiction memoir of her family's year of eating locally, she blends both genres together for a don't miss manifesto on eating sustainably.
She traces a year on her family's farm in Appalachia, from the first tender spears of asparagus in April through the growing season and the bleak months of winter to the hatching of a new flock of turkey ... Read More
Rating: - Changed our families life!!!
I had to read a portion of it in college, but I ended up buying it, because it was so intriguing. The author draws you in and it is hard to put down. It is a very interesting testimony of a family who ate local for a year and how it changed their outlook on life. A must read for Americans!!!
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- Kingsolver's food adventure
About half way read; her personal style of wit makes a lot of detail more enjoyable.Looks like I'd recommend it.
Rating: - mostly incredible
I usually read nonfiction written by journalists or academics, so maybe I'd just gotten accustomed to the oft-dry prose of the books I normally read, but Kingsolver's words leap off the page and come to life in ways I'd forgotten they can do. There were times when I couldn't put this book down.
As a person who was raised completely divorced from any kind of sense of place, I've recently been trying to cultivate a close connection to the land I'm on. Last year I started figuring out how ... Read More
- Thank you for sharing your year with us!Thank you, Barbara Kingsolver, for sharing all your sweat, hard work, enthusiasm, logic, but mostly, joy & knowledge of your family's trek to local, organic & sustainable farming.I greatly admire the book's contributions by your husband, Steven, and daughters Camille and Lily.Your bond of togetherness, with each contributing your heart & soul, should be a family standard to live by for all of us.
Makes you want to buy some land in the country & start this lifestyle too.In fact, ... Read More
- This Book Just Might Change Your Life!Barbara Kingsolver is a beautiful writer, whether she is penning one of her memorable novels or writing about the finer points of biology. In this nonfiction memoir of her family's year of eating locally, she blends both genres together for a don't miss manifesto on eating sustainably.
She traces a year on her family's farm in Appalachia, from the first tender spears of asparagus in April through the growing season and the bleak months of winter to the hatching of a new flock of turkey ... Read More
- Changed our families life!!!I had to read a portion of it in college, but I ended up buying it, because it was so intriguing. The author draws you in and it is hard to put down. It is a very interesting testimony of a family who ate local for a year and how it changed their outlook on life. A must read for Americans!!!
- Kingsolver's food adventureAbout half way read; her personal style of wit makes a lot of detail more enjoyable.Looks like I'd recommend it.
- mostly incredibleI usually read nonfiction written by journalists or academics, so maybe I'd just gotten accustomed to the oft-dry prose of the books I normally read, but Kingsolver's words leap off the page and come to life in ways I'd forgotten they can do. There were times when I couldn't put this book down.
As a person who was raised completely divorced from any kind of sense of place, I've recently been trying to cultivate a close connection to the land I'm on. Last year I started figuring out how ... Read More
