Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
 | P.S.By Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver, Steven L. Hopp Harper Perennial, 2008, Paperback Customer Rating: 313 reviews Recommend |
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Author 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.
Title: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.)
Sales Rank: 157 in Books
Author: Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver, Steven L. Hopp
Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2008-05-01, Paperback, 400 pages, ISBN: 0060852569
Package Dimensions: 8 x 5.1 x 1.1 inches, 0.85 pounds
- A guide to change your eating
- Barbara Kingsolver uses her very readable style to encourage us all on a journey to understand the effects of the standard American diet on our own health as well as the health of the earth. This book is a fun and heart-touching read that also contains great recipes and short insightful inserts regarding the negative impacts of the US agricultural and food production system.… More reviews
- Great theme, Interesting Topics are sometimes lost in the Preaching
- As some of the reviewers write, I, too, believe that the premise of this book is a good one - eat local - however, there has to be a better way to present this book than through a preachy tone. I kept reading, but also kept putting the book down, which is unusual for me.
Our family tested our gardening skills this year and… More reviews
- Too much preaching
- How to rate this book was difficult as there were portions that I enjoyed. But by the time the friend came to visit from Arizona and I heard again about the waste of gas to bring food I felt I had been preached to too much. A shortened version of this book would be better.… More reviews
- Local is better
- This book is very inspiring for those who are unaware or unclear about how much buying produce from far away affects our environment, our farmers and biodiversity. I loved it, and starting following the principles - they make sense. More reviews
- I love this book!
- Barbara Kingsolver is such a fluid writer and as this book chronicles her families' year eating only locally grown foods, I was inspired to change the way I gather, prepare and consume our meals. I probably couldn't do right now what they did for a year but I am inspired and the recipes she shared were all very very good. More reviews
