Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
 

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

by Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver


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.... (read more)

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  • Rated 4 stars

A book to make you think.

I'm predisposed to like this book. This is something I've been looking into, slowly. I was excited about finding some tips for the greener life even though I'm only a middling fan of Kingsolver's (good writer, sometimes a bit preachy).

If you can make it past the long first chapter where she feels the need to justify their lifestyle decisions (and preach a bit) the rest of the book is fairly balanced and often good fun (the turkey chapter is...

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  • Going Green Gal

    going green gal said:

    Stumbled on this book as a Barbara Kingsolver fan. Excellent read. Full of information. Recommend to anyone interested in food and our environment.

    posted 9 days ago
  • Charlotte H

    charlotte h said:

    excellent book... I can't stop thinking about it!

    posted Thursday, June 19 2008
  • Andrew C

    andrew c said:

    I found this in the Tuscaloosa Library on a table, I plan on adding it to my library soon.

    posted Monday, June 9 2008
  • Colorado Library Consortium (CLiC)

    colorado library consortium (clic) said:

    I loved this book so much that my friend and I wrote a song about it.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaHOy4l3P6Q

    posted Thursday, May 29 2008
  • Siobhan F

    siobhan f said:

    I love her writing but am distracted by her preaching. Most of us who read this book are already local foodies. I would like the book more if the sermons were left to the sidebars her husband wrote. In the end however the book made its point and I may even try to make my own cheese....heck if she can do it I can!

    posted Tuesday, May 20 2008
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