The book is full of funny and touching stories of their trials along the way. Winter tomatoes are not a local food – and you can tell by the taste! Having to wait for the fruits and vegetables of summer was both an adventure and a challenge to the author and her family, and it’s one she shares with us. The book reminded me of how much we take for granted with our mass produced food. This time they were planning on staying and spending a year eating what they could find locally and grow for themselves. She packed up with her husband and two daughters and moved from Arizona to their farm in VA where they’d been spending their summer for many years. Read this book and you’ll not only rethink what you eat and where your food is from, you’ll also be reminded that meals are daily opportunities to create with, and for, the people you cherish the most.Animal, Vegetable, Miracle is the story of author Barbara Kingsolver and her family and their quest to eat locally and in season for one year. There have been several landmark books about our current food production-see past Grid classics such as Marion Nestle’s Food Politics and Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma-but this is probably the warmest.
And you can’t help but fall in love with the depiction of second-grader Lily as she launches her own egg business venture. Husband Steven Hopp, a college professor, writes about industrial agriculture politics and college-age daughter Camille contributes recipes and commentary. Kingsolver combines their personal story-the anxiety her family felt before they made the plunge to local-only, how her daughter longed for fruit that might not be in season-to big-picture commentary on food culture and the realities of industrial agriculture.įor the Kingsolvers, it’s a family affair though Barbara writes the majority of the book, all of the adults in the household take turns writing.
For a full year, they decided, they would eat locally and in-season anything they couldn’t grow or raise themselves was sourced from neighboring local farmers. Filled with delicious, seasonal recipes and tips from growing to canning, this stellar book chronicles the Kingsolvers’ move from Arizona to a family farm in Appalachia, VA, as well as their lifestyle shift from end users in a national food chain to central cogs in local food production. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food LifeĪnimal, Vegetable, Miracle will not rest on your bookshelves with Barbara Kingsolver’s fiction this book demands permanent residence in your kitchen.
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