ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MIRACLE: A YEAR OF FOOD LIFE: Barbara Kingsolver: HarperCollins: Nonfiction: 370 pagesBarbara Kingsolver, the acclaimed author of The Poisonwood Bible, with her husband and two daughters moved from Tucson to a farm in Virginia, where they lived for one year eating only what they produced themselves or what they could find locally produced. Interspersed with tales of raising turkeys and growing asparagus are short essays from Kingsolver’s husband about agriculture and ecology and recipes and meal plans from Kingsolver’s older daughter.
Put this on your shelf between Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation and Amy Dacyczyn’s Tightwad Gazette. It is PACKED with information and resources on organic farming and gardening, farmers’ markets, environmental legislation, home production, and more. Kingsolver's passionate and eloquent call for responsible eating sent me straight out to our local farmers' market.
MBC
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