Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Novelist Barbara Kingsolver once wrote, "If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread." In Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, she manages to do both, applying her literary skills to a new food environment. In her seamless diary narrative, Kingsolver...
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Novelist Barbara Kingsolver once wrote, "If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread." In Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, she manages to do both, applying her literary skills to a new food environment. In her seamless diary narrative, Kingsolver tells how she and her family relocated to southern Appalachia after suffering through years of drought in Arizona. The purpose of the move was simple: The Kingsolvers sought to "live in a place that could feed us" by growing their own food and living among a community of local organic growers.
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Format: Textbook
ASIN: 9780060852559
Publish date: 01-05-2007
Publisher: HarperCollins
Edition language: English
Category:
Food And Drink,
Food,
Book Club,
Science,
Environment,
Nature,
Biography Memoir,
Cookbooks,
Green,
Foodie,
Food Writing
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, is a memoir by Barbara Kingsolver, with help from her husband and teenage daughter, in which she chronicles the family's commitment to spending a year growing their own food and buying other necessities as close to home as possible. We had been meanin...
I keep reading Barbara Kingsolver even though she's gotten a little (OK--a lot!) preachy. With The Poisonwood Bible it was her gorgeous prose that kept me reading; with Prodigal Summer it was the compelling characters; with Animal, Vegetable, Miracle it was because...she's right. And because her l...
Barbara Kingsolver and her family move to a farm in Virginia and attempt to eat local foods, mostly foods they have grown themselves. The chapters are a month by month account of the family’s struggle. Here and there, Kingsolver, with help from her daughter and husband, toss in scary stories of the ...
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