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When Kingsolver and her family move from suburban Arizona to rural Appalachia, they take on a new challenge: to spend a year on a locally produced diet, paying close attention to the provenance of all they consume. "Our highest shopping goal was to get our food from so close to home, we'd know the person who grew it. Often that turned out to be ourselves as we learned to produce what we needed, starting with dirt, seeds, and enough knowledge to muddle through. Or starting with baby animals, and enough sense to refrain from naming them."--From publisher description.… (mehr)
JanesList: Both are delightful to read and tell the story of sustainable growing and eating throughout the year, with recipes and family contributions to the books. You might not want to read them both in the same month, but if you liked one, I bet you'll like the other.… (mehr)
Muriel743: Covers similar topics - i.e. mainly urban people pursuing food self-sufficiency, forming relationships with rural community and neighbours and learning the skills needed to feed themselves.
I'm disappointed. I thought this was going to be a Story about a family eating locally for a year. Kingsolver is such a good writer (at least, Bean Trees & Pigs in Heaven were; her last 2 novels have been sitting in my TBR stack). She could have made this an interesting subject for the general public. Instead she loads most chapters with the "why" of their choice, and it comes across as a diatribe against our current food system. Well deserved, but still not a story. I've heard all that before (why I grow my own food). She writes about a restaurant that serves only locally grown food--except for a national beer, "The Farmers Diner does not present itself as a classroom, a church service, or a political rally. For many regional farmers it's a living, and for everybody else it's a place to eat." (p 151). Obviously Kingsolver didn't learn from this example--her book is at least a classroom, if not proselytizing. The book was written by 3 people. Barbara's writing makes up the bulk of the book. Her husband Steven's sections are interspersed throughout the book, set off like footnotes, and detail some the facts and statistics about the American food system. Her daughter Camille's sections come at the end of most chapters and include recipes and a teenager's perspective. Camille's sections are interesting, and show the willingness of older teens to take action on issues that aren't working. If Barbara had eliminated all her reporting on the current system from her section, leaving it Steven's footnotes, it would have made for a much more enjoyable book. She even states "When we first dreamed up our project, we'd expected our hardest task would be to explain in the most basic terms what we were doing and why..." (p336). Yep. They should have shifted their focus. One of the topics they do well on is showing the seasonal change in what they eat--what's ripe when, and what is easily stored for winter use. I will still recommend this book to people who haven't thought about their food sources, but I'll also mention they should feel free to page past sections that don't interest them. As the book progresses, there are more anecdotes about growing and raising food that will actually create the image that this is possible for the average person. What she had to say about raising turkeys will actually be useful, and for that I am satisfied that I didn't waste my time with this book. 2011 review ( )
This book took me back to my childhood in Southern Indiana where my family grew most of our vegetables and, with my grandparents, 'harvested' chickens in the back yard every summer. I envy those who have the yard space for a garden. And I'm frequenting local Farmer's Markets more regularly now since I read this book. I will venture to say that this book will forever change your relationship with food. ( )
I can't get enough food politics!! This book was enjoyable to read and had some very good critisism of our agribusiness practices. The Kingslover family lived off of local food for a year, and learned to get in tune with the seasons and the land and their neighbors. ( )
Great book about eating organic food, running your farm, & family. Probably won't convert you but if you are on the fence about food choices, check it out. ( )
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Picture a single imaginary plant, bearing throughout one season all the different vegetables we harvest...we'll call it a vegetannual.
Widmung
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In memory of Jo Ellen
Erste Worte
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This story about good food begins in a quick-stop convenience market.
Zitate
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If everything my heart desired was handed to me on a plate, I’d probably just want something else. (Camille Kingsolver)
We all cultivate illusions of safety that could fall away in the knife edge of one second.”
People who are grieving walk with death every waking moment. When the rest of us dread that we’ll somehow remind them of death’s existence, we are missing their reality.
Wake up now, look alive, for here is a day off work just to praise Creation: the turkey, the squash, and the corn, these things that ate and drank sunshine, grass, mud, and rain, and then in the shortening days laid down their lives for our welfare and onward resolve. There’s the miracle for you, the absolute sacrifice that still holds back seeds: a germ of promise to do the whole thing again, another time.
Letzte Worte
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A nest full of little ding-dongs, and time begins once more.
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Probelm CK
Date de première publication : - 2007 (1e édition originale américaine, Harper Perennial, New York) - 2008-03-15 (1e traduction et édition française, Littérature étrangère, Payot et Rivages) - 2015-05-27 (Réédition française, Poche, Littérature étrangère, Rivages)
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When Kingsolver and her family move from suburban Arizona to rural Appalachia, they take on a new challenge: to spend a year on a locally produced diet, paying close attention to the provenance of all they consume. "Our highest shopping goal was to get our food from so close to home, we'd know the person who grew it. Often that turned out to be ourselves as we learned to produce what we needed, starting with dirt, seeds, and enough knowledge to muddle through. Or starting with baby animals, and enough sense to refrain from naming them."--From publisher description.
The book was written by 3 people. Barbara's writing makes up the bulk of the book. Her husband Steven's sections are interspersed throughout the book, set off like footnotes, and detail some the facts and statistics about the American food system. Her daughter Camille's sections come at the end of most chapters and include recipes and a teenager's perspective. Camille's sections are interesting, and show the willingness of older teens to take action on issues that aren't working. If Barbara had eliminated all her reporting on the current system from her section, leaving it Steven's footnotes, it would have made for a much more enjoyable book. She even states "When we first dreamed up our project, we'd expected our hardest task would be to explain in the most basic terms what we were doing and why..." (p336). Yep. They should have shifted their focus. One of the topics they do well on is showing the seasonal change in what they eat--what's ripe when, and what is easily stored for winter use.
I will still recommend this book to people who haven't thought about their food sources, but I'll also mention they should feel free to page past sections that don't interest them. As the book progresses, there are more anecdotes about growing and raising food that will actually create the image that this is possible for the average person.
What she had to say about raising turkeys will actually be useful, and for that I am satisfied that I didn't waste my time with this book.
2011 review ( )