Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating - Softcover

Kingsolver, Barbara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571233554 ISBN 13: 9780571233557

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2007

Synopsis

When Barbara Kingsolver and her family move from suburban Arizona to rural Appalachia, they take on a new challenge: to spend a year on a locally-produced diet, paying close attention to the provenance of all they consume. "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" follows the family through the first year of their experiment. They find themselves eager to move away from the all too familiar scenario of most families: a refrigerator packed with processed, factory farmed foods transported long distances using nonrenewable fuels. Believing that most of us have better options available, Kingsolver and her family set out to prove for themselves that a local diet is not just better for the economy and environment, but also better on the table. Their search leads them through a season of planting, pulling weeds, expanding their kitchen skills and harvesting their own animals. Inspired by the flavours and culinary arts of a local food culture, they explore farmers' markets and diversified organic farms at home and across the country, discovering a booming movement with devotees from all over America. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, and complete with original recipes, "Animal Vegetable Miracle" makes a passionate case for putting the kitchen back at the center of family life, and diversified farms at the centre of our diet.

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Review:

"Highly digestible.Engaging." -- Ellen Goodman, Boston Globe

"Engaging.Absorbing.Lovely food writing.[Kingsolver] succeeds at adopting the warm tone of a confiding friend." -- Corby Kummer, New York Times Book Review

"Charming, zestful, funny and poetic.a serious book about important problems." -- Washington Post Book World

"Kingsolver.adds enough texture and zest to stir wistful yearnings in all of us...[A] vicarious taste of domesticity." -- Christian Science Monitor

"Full.of zest and sometimes ribald humor. Reading this book will make you hungry." -- Raleigh News & Observer

"A lovely book. " -- Los Angeles Times

"[Written] with passion and hope.This novelist paints a compelling big picture-broad and ambitious, with nary an extraneous stroke." -- Rocky Mountain News

"A terrific effort. The delight for readers.is the chance to experience the rediscovery of community through food." -- The Oregonian (Portland)

A lovely book. --Los Angeles Times

"Homespun, unassuming, informed, positive, inspiring. . . . Unstinting in its concerns about this imperiled planet."--Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Book Description:

A year in the life of bestselling novelist ,Barbara Kingsolver, and her family as they try to eat local produce, grow their own, and reduce their ecological footprint

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0571233554
• ISBN 13: 9780571233557
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384