Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
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On Sale:
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17/04/2008
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Formats:
Trade paperback
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Can we ever really know what we’re eating? Is it possible to walk away from
today’s industrial, processed-food pipeline? Bestselling author Barbara
Kingsolver and her family reveal that the answer to both questions is yes. They
have chronicled a year in which they vowed to buy only locally produced food,
grow it themselves or learn to live without it.
With her illuminating prose, Kingsolver has created a
compelling, wise and often humorous look at what it takes to reinvent a food
culture that is healthy for the family, the neighbourhood and the planet. Part
memoir, part journalistic investigation, part resource and entirely a great
story, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle passionately urges us to take a second
look at what we put on our tables and how it gets there.
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Critical Praise for
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
"Folksy and smart.... Cogent and illuminating...this book captures the pulse of the farm the deep gratification it provides."
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The New Yorker
"Charming, zestful, funny and poetic.... This is a serious book about important problems."
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The Washington Post Book World
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