![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sadly, my take-away feeling was frustration at not being able to find the kind of food Kingsolver and her family eat. I disagreed with nothing, nodded throughout, and laughed often. So okay, I loved it, just as much as I love her fiction. Their website is a great resource with lots of good links and even stories from others around the world. But contrary to my expectations, it was far from a farm journal with recipes (yes, it has a few.) There are also trips to other farms (including a myth-busting story of visiting their Amish friends), food adventures in Italy, and the universal recounting of holiday get-togethers – so really good story-telling. Down with fast food, up with slow, local food!īut as much as it chronicles the growing and preparing of food, it’s a story about family – because this had to be a family project, and the book even includes sidebars by Kingsolver’s biology professor husband and her 18-year-old daughter, the aspiring nutritionist and surprisingly good writer. It’s also her passionate plea for all Americans to rethink our eating habits. ![]() Review by my book club, reported by SusanĪnimal, Vegetable, Miracleis Barbara Kingsolver’s story of her family’s one-year experiment in eating food they grow themselves in Virginia, supplemented by the local farmers and only a few nonlocal items like coffee. ![]()
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