This meant no snack foods, no processed ones, no cucumbers from warmer parts of the world. They would work the farm and live on local or home-grown food for a full calendar year. They decided to leave their arid life in Tucson, Arizona, and moved to Virginia, where they already owned a farm in an Appalachian hollow. Their basic plan to change their way of living was not unique by either culinary or publishing standards. Kingsolver and her family would describe their adventure in other terms, but experiments in studied simplicity are increasingly frequent. 'Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" is a wonderfully neighborly account of stunt eating. While she is cogent and illuminating about serious matters of nutrition, Kingsolver also finds ways to convey what it's like to be showered with friends' plants as birthday gifts, regard a full supply of potatoes as "homeland security," and fend off the amorous attention of a lovesick turkey hen. Barbara Kingsolver's way is both folksy and smart. There are many ways for a writer to tell you to eat your vegetables: earnestly, humorously, scientifically, self-righteously, instructively or so voluptuously that the page practically reeks of fertilizer. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle A Year of Food Life By Barbara Kingsolver with Steven L.
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