Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life - Tapa dura

Kingsolver, Barbara; Kingsolver, Camille; Hopp, Steven L.

 
9780060852559: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

Sinopsis

The National Humanities Medal-winning author of The Poisonwood Bible follows the author's family's efforts to live on locally and home-grown foods, an endeavor through which they learned lighthearted truths about food production and the connection between health and diet. 175,000 first printing.

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"Homespun, unassuming, informed, positive, inspiring. . . . Unstinting in its concerns about this imperiled planet."--Seattle Post-Intelligencer

"Kingsolver...adds enough texture and zest to stir wistful yearnings in all of us...[A] vicarious taste of domesticity."--Christian Science Monitor

"Provocative . . . Kingsolver . . . evokes the sheer joy of producing one's own food."--People

"ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MIRACLE makes an important contribution to the chorus of voices calling for change.""--Chicago Tribune

"Kingsolver elegantly chronicles a year of back-to-the-land living...Readers...will take heart and inspiration here."--Kirkus Reviews

"A terrific effort. The delight for readers...is the chance to experience the rediscovery of community through food."--The Oregonian (Portland)

"Delectable . . . steeped in elegant prose and seasoned with smart morsels about the food industry."--Chicago Tribune

"Anyone who read and appreciated THE OMNIVORE'S DILEMMA by Michael Pollan will want to read Barbara Kingsolver's book."--Roanoke Times

"[Written] with passion and hope...This novelist paints a compelling big picture-broad and ambitious, with nary an extraneous stroke."--Rocky Mountain News

"Kingsolver beautifully describes this experience."--More Magazine

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The National Humanities Medal-winning author of The Poisonwood Bible follows the author's family's efforts to live on locally and home-grown foods, an endeavor through which they learned lighthearted truths about food production and the connection between health and diet. 175,000 first printing.

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