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“Charming, zestful, funny and poetic…a serious book about important problems.” (Washington Post Book World)“Charming . . . Literary magic . . . If you love the narrative voice of Barbara Kingsolver, you will be thrilled.” (Houston Chronicle)“ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MIRACLE makes an important contribution to the chorus of voices calling for change.”” (Chicago Tribune)“If you...buy...one book this summer, make it this one...As satisfying and complete as a down home supper.” (Tucson Citizen)“Engaging…Absorbing…Lovely food writing…[Kingsolver] succeeds at adopting the warm tone of a confiding friend.” (Corby Kummer, New York Times Book Review)“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)“Homespun, unassuming, informed, positive, inspiring. . . . Unstinting in its concerns about this imperiled planet.” (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)“A profound, graceful, and literary work . . . Timeless. . . . It can change who you are.” (Rick Bass, Boston Globe)“Classy and disarming, substantive and entertaining, earnest and funny....Kingsolver takes the genre to a new literary level.” (Publishers Weekly (starred review))
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About the Author
Barbara Kingsolver's work has been translated into more than twenty languages and has earned a devoted readership at home and abroad. She was awarded the National Humanities Medal, our country's highest honor for service through the arts. She received the 2011 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for the body of her work, and in 2010 won Britain's Orange Prize for The Lacuna. Before she made her living as a writer, Kingsolver earned degrees in biology and worked as a scientist. She now lives with her family on a farm in southern Appalachia.
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Product details
Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (April 29, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780060852566
ISBN-13: 978-0060852566
ASIN: 0060852569
Product Dimensions:
5.3 x 1 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.4 out of 5 stars
999 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#37,636 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
I got this on audio book from the library. I've finished half of the book and am giving up. It started out ok, but got so mind-numbingly boring. It could have been done in half the space. It's repetitive and preachy . If I hear one more thing about asparagus, I think I will gag. It gets very dry with all the information.I do resent her saying organic eating doesn't cost that much more than regular food. First off, where I live, organic products are very few. I do understand the premise of spending a little more as an investment in health, but do I pay $3.86 for a gallon of milk, when we go thru 4 gallons a week, or can I really afford organic, which is $7.99 a gallon? I was excited when the local market advertised locally raised chickens, not even sure they are organic, don't believe they are certified but I guess as close to it as we'll get. A chicken in the grocery is about $4. This chicken in the local market is $22! There was an organic store about an hour from me. It closed. It was charging $3 for one orange or one apple. Really? So, please don't preach to me saying organic doesn't cost that much more.When all is said and done, America isn't going to change the way they do food. It's a sad fact. Feed lot animals will still be the norm and shipping produce from across the country will also not stop. So I feel their preaching about fossil fuels and transporting of goods was for nothing. It's easy to do what they did--they are wealthy.As far as buying local, yes, I do that when possible. But go to a farmers' market in my area and you find a very limited selection, even in peak season. If you can find a farmer's market, which are few and far between. The fantasy way of eating proposed by the book is just too far off the mark from the reality of what's available in my area. I'm taking this audio book back to the library. My brain is numb already from listening to it.
Kingsolver invites us to her family's garden and table as they spend a year eating pretty much only what they or people they know in their area grow. I first read this years ago thanks to a book club suggestion, and I keep recommending it and buying more copies for friends who are interested in knowing more about sustainable living. The format works -- Kingsolver writes the main narrative, with her husband writing sidebars for facts and figures of the big picture of American agribusiness and her daughter writes recipe sidebars -- that are good, too! Chew on this book for a while, and you'll find yourself making different and more informed choices about your own food -- and, as Stephen assures us in one of his sidebars -- even one local meal a week for every American family would decrease fossil fuel use and increase local farmer -- and your own family's -- health.
I have been a fan of Barbara Kingsolver for years. I am amazed that this book slipped under the radar for me 10 years ago. I am so glad I just newly discovered it just a month ago. I have a great grandfather whose family were multigenerational farmers on the outskirts of Rome for many years. They were one of many small farms who did and still do feed Rome with low intensity “hand made†food production. I am an urban architect in San Diego and am now trying to incorporate small scale urban farming to some of our new projects so the next generation can understand where there food comes from. These are net zero, affordable housing and projects from a fossil fuel standpoint. This book is a perfect resource for my projects.
This was a wonderful book that will change the way you look at food, how it is grown, processed, transported and satisfies our nutritional and emotional needs.
I didn't think I'd like this book, but I should have known that Ms Kingsolver would rise to the occasion. I truly enjoyed the tongue in cheek criticism of urban dwellers who don't know where their food comes from especially since I was one. Since moving to my parent's farm in my near thirtys then having to move away I have come to miss the farm life and the peace and security of being able to walk out your back door and feed yourself.Thank you for reminding me of probably the best times of my life.
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