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by: Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver, Steven L. Hopp See Larger Image List Price: $14.95 Our Price: $10.17 You Save: $4.78 (32%) Prices subject to change. Used Price: $7.89 Third Party New Price: $8.51 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours This item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping. Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 641.0973 EAN: 9780060852566 ISBN: 0060852569 Label: Harper Perennial Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 400 Publication Date: May 01, 2008 Publisher: Harper Perennial Release Date: April 29, 2008 Sales Rank: 209 Studio: Harper Perennial Related Items: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto Home Cheese Making: Recipes for 75 Delicious Cheeses The Art of Simple Food: Notes, Lessons, and Recipes from a Delicious Revolution Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally see more Editorial Review: Product Description: Author Barbara Kingsolver and her family abandoned the industrial-food pipeline to live a rural life—vowing that, for one year, they’d only buy food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle is an enthralling narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat. Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - Pretentious and preachy I really wanted to like this book. I agree with the author in that as a culture we've clearly gotten out of touch with living off the land and have become a fast food society. But I struggled to even get through the first chapter. The tone of the book is much too preachy and pretentious giving it a "holier than thou" feel. It's hard to get past that. Rating: - You Take the Good, You Take the Bad I'm only halfway through Kingsolver's book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, so it's possible I will have a skewed opinion. Anyway, Kingsolver opened my eyes to the plight of America's food problem. I'd heard of things like HFCS (high fructose corn syrup), but I'd never given it much thought. I sure will now. I appreciated her discourses about the garden, the cheesemaking, etc. The information about transportation costs, etc. given in the sidebars by Steven Hopp was excellent. I will, ... Read More Rating: - True Inspiration This book was a complete inspiration to get better connections with our food. As years go on, it seems we've gotten further and further away from thinking about where our food comes from. This completely dials you in to the locavore movement, and just enjoying cooking/gardening again or in a new light. A great read for anyone who cares about what they put in their body! Rating: - Don't Believe the Hype While the author makes many valid points about the benefits of consuming locally grown food, she is guilty of one (literally) fatal error: eating animals for food is neither necessary nor healthy for humans, the environment, or, of course, the animals themselves. Moving from a vegetarian diet to a flesh-based diet is not progress, either physically or spiritually, and teaching children that slaughterhouses are bad, yet killing and eating animals whom they "know" is perfectly acceptable, ... Read More Rating: - Terrific book! Barbara Kingsolver has struck a wonderful balance among educating readers about gardening, slow food, food science and telling a great tale of a family's adventure of local eating. The recipes are great, too! What a revelation to learn that we have all been anesthetized by the large corporations, whether they be the corporations that produce processed food, or the seed companies with their genetically modified terminator genes in the seeds. I thoroughly enjoyed the book and ... Read More see more Browse for similar items by category: Formats Alternative Formats Audiobooks Boxed Sets Calendars