num_pages: 15
description: 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.
language: English
title: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
titlecomplete: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
genres: Biography, Nature, Environment, Health, Cooking, Gardening, Nonfiction, Food, Memoir, Audiobook
ratings_count: 109008
places: Virginia
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Book Sense Book of the Year Award
category: Adult Nonfiction
publisher: HarperAudio