Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 641.0973 EAN: 9780060852566 ISBN: 0060852569 Label: Harper Perennial Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 400 Publication Date: May 01, 2008 Publisher: Harper Perennial Release Date: April 29, 2008 Sales Rank: 164 Studio: Harper Perennial
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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.
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Rating: - Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
For starters, this is not BK's most well written book. However, I have traveled with her (metaphorically) by way of her novels, appearance on NOW as well as a journey of a family, so I found it to be delightful. I also purchased this book in the autumn of the year and read a bit from her Thanksgiving season to others at a meditation gathering. I was inspired by the book and the love that shines through it. So, if you are attuned to food as a spiritual path (She would never say that!), I whole heartedly ... Read More
Rating: - Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
This book will change the way you look at food and shopping. I think it should be read by all that cook and shop since it brings to light the way our food is grown, prepared and shipped. It explores so many angles in the production of food and it is interesting! I now look for locally grown food whereever I shop, and try to buy organic when I can.
Rating: - YOU'LL LOOK AT (AND LOVE) FOOD IN A NEW WAY
This is one of those books that has the power to change your life and make you look at the world in a new way.
Rather skeptical at first, I became deeply moved about halfway through "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle." Barbara Kingsolver presents many compelling reasons to change the way we eat and to enhance our relationship with food -- not the least of which are infinitely better taste and nutrition. Other reasons are concern for the environment, struggling farmers, and people living in poverty ... Read More
Rating: - Common Sense still exist...
This is a terrific book and so far has been a joy to read. It points out the shortcomings that as humans we have created, yet at the same time offers solutions that are so simple. Maybe if we packaged seeds and growing our own food with a remote control or some new techno gadget, people might get interested?
Rating: - Pretentious and preachy
I really wanted to like this book. I agree with the author in that as a culture we've clearly gotten out of touch with living off the land and have become a fast food society. But I struggled to even get through the first chapter. The tone of the book is much too preachy and pretentious giving it a "holier than thou" feel. It's hard to get past that.
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- Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
- Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
- Pretentious and preachy