Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

Number of page: 400
Author: arbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver, Steven L. Hopp
Publisher: Harper Collins
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Category: Biography & Autobiography

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 .

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About The Author

Barbara Kingsolver's work has been translated into more than twenty languages and has earned a devoted readership at home and abroad. She was awarded the National Humanities Medal, our country's highest honor for service through the arts. She received the 2011 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for the body of her work, and in 2010 won Britain's Orange Prize for The Lacuna. Before she made her living as a writer, Kingsolver earned degrees in biology and worked as a scientist. She now lives with her family on a farm in southern Appalachia.


Camille Kingsolver graduated from Duke University in 2009 and currently works in the mental health field. She is an active advocate for the local-food movement, doing public speaking for young adults of her own generation navigating food choices in a difficult economy. She lives in Asheville, N.C., and grows a vegetable garden in her front yard.


Steven L. Hopp was trained in life sciences and received his PhD from Indiana University. He has published papers in bioacoustics, ornithology, animal behavior and more recently in sustainable agriculture. He is the founder and director of the Meadowview Farmers Guild, a community development project that includes a local foods restaurant and general store that source their products locally. He teaches at Emory & Henry College in the Environmental Studies department. He coauthored Animal, Vegetable, Miracle with Barbara Kingsolver and Camille Kingsolver.

Reviews:

• A Google User
  Review: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life In the past year, I've become something of a local and seasonal food evangelist. Sure, I've always shopped at farmers' markets and tried to buy produce in season. But given the current climate crisis, I've come to realize that eating food produced locally is one of the easiest and most enjoyable methods we have to reduce fuel consumption and improve both local environments and the health of our
• Pam Cook
  Amazing This book is just a joy to read, shat a gift to the world
• Ellen Rehaut
  Intriguing read A fascinating and powerful read
• Tony Cress
  Great. Book. This gives you a little insight on where your food comes from, and how to eat healthy, not only for yourself, but for the environment.
• Jeremy Morgan
  Nonfiction? This book is full of half-truths and inaccuracies regarding eating local, farmers markets, and growing your own produce for consumption. She can call it nonfiction all she wants, but it won't change it from the fairytale she wrote this into.
• Tammy McDaniel
  Thanks
• Ryan Jobson
  As lja
• Julio Astacio
  La parabola de pablo It's a real best seller
• CasaBooks
  LibraryThing Review One of my favorite books. Lessons to learn, wonderful writing and oh, those chicken stories. Recommended! Read in 2008.h

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