(031060) Kingsolver, Barbara. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year Of Food Life. New York: HarperCollins, 2007. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 370 pages. Fine in Fine DJ. 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, This book 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 ISBN: 0060852550 (Farm Life, Country Life, Agriculture, Food Habits, Appalachian Region)
