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![]() | Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (2007) Our Year of Seasonal Eating A non fiction book by Barbara Kingsolver |
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.
"As the U.S. population made an unprecedented mad dash for the Sun Belt, one carload of us paddled against the tide, heading for the Promised Land where water falls from the sky and green stuff grows all around. We were about to begin the adventure of realigning our lives with our food chain.
"Naturally, our first stop was to buy junk food and fossil fuel. . . ."
Hang on for the ride: With characteristic poetry and pluck, Barbara Kingsolver and her family sweep readers along on their journey away from the industrial-food pipeline to a rural life in which they vow to buy only food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. Their good-humored search yields surprising discoveries about turkey sex life and overly zealous zucchini plants, en route to a food culture that's better for the neighborhood and also better on the table. 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.
"This is the story of a year in which we made every attempt to feed ourselves animals and vegetables whose provenance we really knew . . . and of how our family was changed by our first year of deliberately eating food produced from the same place where we worked, went to school, loved our neighbors, drank the water, and breathed the air."
"As the U.S. population made an unprecedented mad dash for the Sun Belt, one carload of us paddled against the tide, heading for the Promised Land where water falls from the sky and green stuff grows all around. We were about to begin the adventure of realigning our lives with our food chain.
"Naturally, our first stop was to buy junk food and fossil fuel. . . ."
Hang on for the ride: With characteristic poetry and pluck, Barbara Kingsolver and her family sweep readers along on their journey away from the industrial-food pipeline to a rural life in which they vow to buy only food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. Their good-humored search yields surprising discoveries about turkey sex life and overly zealous zucchini plants, en route to a food culture that's better for the neighborhood and also better on the table. 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.
"This is the story of a year in which we made every attempt to feed ourselves animals and vegetables whose provenance we really knew . . . and of how our family was changed by our first year of deliberately eating food produced from the same place where we worked, went to school, loved our neighbors, drank the water, and breathed the air."
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Hardback Editions
October 2008 : Library Binding
| Title: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life Author(s): Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver, Steven L. Hopp ISBN: 1-4395-6008-0 / 978-1-4395-6008-2 Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
July 2007 : Hardback
| Title: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating Author(s): Barbara Kingsolver ISBN: 0-571-23356-2 / 978-0-571-23356-4 (UK edition) Publisher: Faber and Faber Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
May 2007 : Hardback
| Title: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life Author(s): Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver, Steven L. Hopp ISBN: 0-06-085255-0 / 978-0-06-085255-9 (USA edition) Publisher: Harper Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Paperback Editions
May 2008 : Paperback
| Title: Animal Vegetable Miracle Author(s): Barbara Kingsolver ISBN: 0-00-200629-4 / 978-0-00-200629-3 (UK edition) Publisher: HarperCollins Canada / Cdn Adult Tp Availability: Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
April 2008 : Paperback
| Title: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating Author(s): Barbara Kingsolver ISBN: 0-571-23357-0 / 978-0-571-23357-1 (UK edition) Publisher: Faber and Faber Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
April 2008 : Paperback
| Title: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life Author(s): Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver, Steven L. Hopp ISBN: 0-06-085256-9 / 978-0-06-085256-6 (USA edition) Publisher: Harper Perennial Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
2008 : Paperback
| Title: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - A Year Of Food Life Author(s): Barbara; Hopp, Steven L.; Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver ISBN: 1-55468-188-X / 9781554681884 (USA edition) Publisher: Harper-perennial Availability: Amazon Amazon CA More details... |
July 2007 : Paperback
| Title: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating Author(s): Barbara Kingsolver ISBN: 0-571-23355-4 / 978-0-571-23355-7 (UK edition) Publisher: Faber and Faber Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
May 2007 : Paperback
| Title: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle LP Author(s): Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver ISBN: 0-06-128529-3 / 978-0-06-128529-5 (USA edition) Publisher: HarperLuxe Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
2007 : Paperback
| Title: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life Author(s): Barbara;Hopp, Steven L.;Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver Publisher: Harper Collins Availability: Amazon More details... |
Audio Editions
February 2012 : Audio CD
| Title: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life Author(s): Barbara Kingsolver ISBN: 1-4551-3559-3 / 978-1-4551-3559-2 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
August 2007 : MP3 CD
| Title: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life Author(s): Barbara Kingsolver ISBN: 1-4332-0732-X / 978-1-4332-0732-7 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
August 2007 : Audio CD
| Title: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life Author(s): Barbara Kingsolver ISBN: 1-4332-0731-1 / 978-1-4332-0731-0 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
August 2007 : Audio Cassette
| Title: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life Author(s): Barbara Kingsolver ISBN: 1-4332-0730-3 / 978-1-4332-0730-3 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
April 2007 : Audio CD
| Title: Animal Vegetable Miracle Unabridged Cd: A Year of Food Life Author(s): Barbara Kingsolver ISBN: 0-06-085357-3 / 978-0-06-085357-0 (USA edition) Publisher: Harper Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Other Editions
March 2010 : Kindle edition
| Title: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating Author(s): Barbara Kingsolver Publisher: Faber and Faber Non Fiction Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
October 2009 : Kindle edition
| Title: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle Author(s): Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver, Steven L. Hopp Publisher: HarperCollins e-books Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
January 2007 : Unknown
| Title: Animal Vegetable Miracle Our year of Seasonal Eating Author(s): Publisher: Faber and Faber, London Availability: Amazon More details... |
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