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: $14.95
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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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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.
Elightening, Informative and Entertaining - A Great Book in Every Way
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I'll be purchasing several copies of this book as Christmas presents. I wish everyone I knew could read it. In fact, I think all high school kids should read it, after reading Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. Here, in lyrical, easy-to-read and entertaining language is an inspirational narrative that tells the real truth about how to eat healthy, sustainable, economically and environmentally GOOD FOOD. Even if you never garden, the choices you make when you purchase food have power. This book is not just for those who are interested in growing a garden or raising chickens. Thank you, Ms. Kingsolver.
Read it!
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Regardless what actions you take after reading this book - if you start your own garden, join a crop share association, swear off CAFO (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations) meats, or simply start shopping at your local farmers market - you will be effected by what you learn.
Fascinating book with great information.
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This is certainly a book that makes one take a careful look at one's eating practices. Kingsolver presents a compelling case for trying as much as possible to buy food that is locally and/or organically grown. The book looks and feels great.
By the way, I also found valuable information on these books:
Dare To Be Healthy: The Light of Physical Regeneration
Delicious, Healthy And Easy - Tom's Vegetarian Cookbook: Easy Yummy And Nutritional Vegan Recipes
Eating For Youth And Beauty
Here's How To Be Healthy
Rebuild Your Stomach
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