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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, 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
saccharine, illogical:
I was excited to read this book, having just finished the Omnivore's Dilemma and Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer, both of which are very thought provoking, lucidly argued, and well written (though not without their flaws). This book by contrast was cloyingly sweet, sanctimonious, and simplistic. My annoyance with this book is two fold: First: I get it - factory farms are bad. Sustainable farming is better from nutritional, moral, and environmental perspectives. The much harder question is how to... more info
Great book - not a gardening guide:
I've come late to the table, if you excuse the pun, since I'm just finishing up the book now.
Kingsolver's book is not a gardening guide. I didn't expect to learn how to do this myself; I expected
to understand the issues and why the family is living like this for a year. As a non fiction memoir (and not a guide), the book was fascinating. I'm not a gardener,
just a home cook but I was inspired to go to my farmers market more often.
It's a good read. Danny Bernstein, author... more info
Great Read!:
This is a great book that brings you back to the basics that we seem to forgot in a society of "I want it now!". The writing is excellent!
Plant This!:
"Animal, Vegetable, Miracle"
A novel by Barbara Kingsolver Book Review by Jay Gilbertson
The sub-title for this non-fiction account could read--"Who Grew it?" Or maybe--"It came all the way from where?" It's a refreshing, lively paced account of a how a family of four literally dug in, gardened their brains out, and had a stocked-to-the rafters larder to prove it. But more importantly, it's an information-packed collection of stories, and farming experiences suggesting viable alternatives... more info
