This book is a perfect resource for my projects. The Great American Novel is something of a moving target. Barbara Kingsolver is the author of nine bestselling works of fiction, including the novels, Flight Behavior, The Lacuna, The Poisonwood Bible, Animal Dreams, and The Bean Trees, as well as books of poetry, essays, and creative nonfiction.Her work of narrative nonfiction is the enormously influential bestseller Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle A Year of Food Life (Book) : Kingsolver, Barbara : 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. She was the first creative nonfiction writer who caught my eye and made me laugh, cry, and feel enraged. I have a great grandfather whose family were multigenerational farmers on the outskirts of Rome for many years. They were one of many small farms who did and still do feed Rome with low intensity “hand made” food production. She is an active advocate for the local-food movement, doing public speaking for young adults of her own generation navigating food choices in a difficult economy. tags: agriculture, food. Prices are hidden. Like a good meal this book should be read slowly and digested. The most comprehensive, all-natural baby food book you can buy. The book covers the year she and her family spent eating only food they had either grown themselves or purchased from local farmers personally known to them. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life | Barbara Kingsolver | Harper Perennial | 2017 Tenth Anniversary Edition | 432 pages | ISBN: 978-0062653055 Bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver returns with her first nonfiction narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat. You have to read this book. I also do not want to hear any more of her stories about how awesome she and her family are, and how they were able to eat primarily off what they could grow in their backyard, (plenty of fresh vegetables!) Please try again. The "how to", "why to" story of eating locally, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 8, 2012. We work hard to protect your security and privacy. The Dirty Life: A Memoir of Farming, Food, and Love, “Charming, zestful, funny and poetic…a serious book about important problems.” (Washington Post Book World), The Mini Farming Bible: The Complete Guide to Self-Sufficiency on ¼ Acre, 5-Ingredient Clean Eating Cookbook: 125 Simple Recipes to Nourish and Inspire, Vegetable Gardening for Beginners: A Simple Guide to Growing Vegetables at Home. ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MIRACLE is a chronicle of food feats…I’m inclined to agree with most points Kingsolver makes. ― Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle makes a passionate case for putting the kitchen back at the center of family life and diversified farms at the center of the American diet. If there is a Animal Vegetable Miracle SparkNotes, Shmoop guide, or Cliff Notes, you can find a link to each study guide below. Great story, very informative, as ever, from Barbara Kingsolver. Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) is a service we offer sellers that lets them store their products in Amazon's fulfillment centers, and we directly pack, ship, and provide customer service for these products. I give this book 5 stars because its cause is very close to my heart. Secondly, by the luck of the draw I can afford to purchase food from the weekly farmer’s market. by Harper, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. 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