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
Packaged Height: 110 hundredths-inches
Packaged Length: 800 hundredths-inches
Packaged Weight: 85 hundredths-pounds
Packaged Width: 510 hundredths-inches
Publication Date: 2008-05-01
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Release Date: 2008-04-29
Studio: Harper Perennial
Product Description:
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.
Customer Reviews:
 not so sure, 2009-01-06
I have read all of Kingsolver's books, and greatly enjoyed them. This one was not so easy. My real problem with it was the assumption that we all have "family" to have meals with, cook with, and hang out in the kitchen or garden with. I would love that, but it just isn't the case, and I'm sure that is so for many others. So many are single person households now, with no family, or no family close by. So I guess I would have to say it brought into full focus how alone I feel. I agree with another reviewer that the slant is elitist. I agree with her eating recommendations for the most part, being vegetarian, organic, eating in season, local etc. I would give 5 stars to all her other books.
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