Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.)
Selected Book Details
- Paperback
- Author: Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver, Steven L. Hopp
- Publisher: Harper Perennial
- Release Date: May 2008
- ISBN-10: 0060852569
- ISBN-13: 9780060852566
- List Price: $15.99
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Summaries and Customer Reviews provided by Amazon
SummaryAuthor Barbara Kingsolver and her family abandoned the industrial-food pipeline to live a rural life—vowing that, for one year, theyd 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. |
Customer Reviews
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Feel Good Book of the Year
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I read a lot of non-fiction regarding food politics, farming, etc. Unlike a lot of books that leave you feeling overwhelmed and depressed, this book made me feel warm, inspired, and optimistic. A great look at the positive benefits of getting back to basics when it comes to food. This is a good book to read before Thanksgiving and Christmas as it takes a really positive stance on our food culture surrounding holiday feasts. I kept explaining this book to friends as vegetable gardner porn.
Local food 101
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This is a great book and Kingsolver is a great writer. For all those curious about food/ all apreciators and lovers of food, live vicariously through Kingsolver and her family as they embark upon a year long experiment with living off of the land in upstate new york. It will change the way you view the seasons and your food choices.
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
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A book for anyone who is interested in the process of getting off the food pipeline to being as self-sufficient as possible in our global cacophony of food production. Writer Barbara Kingsolver shares the stage in the this fantastic book with her husband and daughter. This is a personal yearly voyage of a family seeking the meaning of real food as an extension of their environment. "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life" shares potent, relevant and vital information about food production (past and present), "green" networks and nutrition.
Domenico Petrillo, Beacon, NY
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.)
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
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This book could change your life. Barbara Kingsolver is a wonderfully witty writer who invites you into a year of life as she and her family eat food which is grown locally using sustainable agriculture. Much of the food they grow themselves. In inserts throughout the book, her husband, Steven L. Hopp, contributes pertinent information about various agricultural issues and suggestions for action. In each chapter Barbara's college age daughter, Camille Kingsolver, tells about their cooking experiences and includes recipes. I have never had so much fun learning about what's good for me.
A good message, but why so smug?
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While I was reading this book, I went back and forth from between being inspired to being annoyed. The message is good, but the condescending tone just gets to be too much. I wish everyone could read what they say about the feedlot fattening operations - I think many would be inspired to seek out free range meat. Likewise with the heirloom vegetables.
The superior attitude and preachy tone works against their message, though. Why be so snarky towards such easy targets as the vegan starlet? Also, it seems more than a little condescending to say that certain Hindus weren't really vegetarian because of the insect parts contaminating their flour. I don't understand why they seem so determined to diminish the value of vegetarianism - it would have been better to emphasize that this is another good way to reduce the negative impact on the earth.
Trying to persuade people to change their habits is difficult, and it requires a sense of humor, and respect for the people you are trying to reach. It's too bad, but I think most of the people that are going to be persuaded by this book were probably almost there already.
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