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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle | 
 enlarge | Author: Barbara, Kingsolver
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books
Category: EBooks
List Price: $11.95
Buy New: $9.56
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Rating:  289 reviews
Sales Rank: 61
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.0973
ASIN: B000QTD62Y
Publication Date: May 8, 2007
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Product Description
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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 Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.) August 17, 2008
You'd probably like this book if you're looking to introduce natural or organic food consumption into your every day like. For me, it was a waste of $9. It was a slow read and did not hold my interest.
 Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: a year of food Life August 17, 2008
This is a fascinating, insightful, well written and easy-to-read book explaining in detail how our dependency on food from global sources has made us that much more dependent on oil to have the food brought to us, and this is an extremely enlightening description of how we can rid ourselves of this fuel dependency as a society by changing things in our life through changing what we choose to eat, and deciding for ourselves what we will tolerate as far as how the food is distributed throughout the world, and from where. This book illuminates the facts of how simple food expectations that we are unaware of but are ingrained deeply into our social structures which connect to other people and societies through out the world, can be altered in ways that are dependent on US individually to make, not through our governments. It describes how our government, economy and the treatment of food starting from the creation of hybrid seeds, to the ability the seeds have to resist insects, to how it gets to us at the table, is intertwined in such a way that we can no longer have the capacity to grow naturally, or organically, on a global scale. It is frightening what has been done, yet there is still hope for us.
Very informative, beautifully written August 14, 2008
A fascinating account of a family's journey to live off the land--THEIR land. The discussion of how our food supply has changed in the last 50+ years and how it affects our health and our economy is excellent, something we all should be thinking about.
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle August 13, 2008
This is well written and very informative. In today's world we do need to take back some of the healthy past when it comes to food. This is a great teaching tool. I would recommend this book to everyone.
Please forward to the author August 12, 2008
I love this book, I couldn't put it down. My husband and I have tended community gardens together for the past twenty years. However, the closest we came to the grand scale of personal food production described by Kingsolver was when we were graduate students in Ithaca, NY where we had our first garden, with over 20 tomato plants. I can relate to the tomatoes covering every square inch of available kitchen space.
Now, my 6 year old daughter and I have dreams of raising our own chickens, and I personally would like a goat. The only (perhaps not only) problems are that we live in a city in Southern California and the city rules ban roosters. And my husband is not as enthusiastic. I have ordered the recommended book on making one's own cheese and am excited to begin experimenting.
My only criticism of "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" is that there is no index for reference. It took me quite a while to re-locate the recipe for the green bean dip. I finally found it (I note that except for the basil it is not all that different from Mollie Katzen's vegetable-walnut pate) and made the dish even though I was on vacation in the mountains without a food-processor, but it was worth it.
I find myself wanting to locate other information that I read in this book, not a recipe, but short of re-reading the whole book, ... Barbara, please post a detailed index online!
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