Author Barbara Kingsolver and her family abandoned the industrial-food pipeline to live a rural life--vowing that, for one year, they d 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:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.):
You'd probably like this book if you're looking to introduce natural or organic food consumption into your every day like. For me, it was a waste of $9. It was a slow read and did not hold my interest.
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: a year of food Life:
This is a fascinating, insightful, well written and easy-to-read book explaining in detail how our dependency on food from global sources has made us that much more dependent on oil to have the food brought to us, and this is an extremely enlightening description of how we can rid ourselves of this fuel dependency as a society by changing things in our life through changing what we choose to eat, and deciding for ourselves what we will tolerate as far as how the food is distributed throughout the world, and... more info
Very informative, beautifully written:
A fascinating account of a family's journey to live off the land--THEIR land. The discussion of how our food supply has changed in the last 50+ years and how it affects our health and our economy is excellent, something we all should be thinking about.
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle:
This is well written and very informative. In today's world we do need to take back some of the healthy past when it comes to food. This is a great teaching tool. I would recommend this book to everyone.
