Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life Tapa dura - 2007

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."As the U.S. population made an unprecedented mad dash for the Sun Belt, one carload of us paddled against the tide, heading for the Promised Land where water falls from the sky and green stuff grows all around. We were about to begin the adventure of realigning our lives with our food chain."Naturally, our first stop was to buy junk food and fossil fuel. . . ."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."This is the story of a year in which we made every attempt to feed ourselves animals and vegetables whose provenance we really knew . . . and of how our family was changed by our first year of deliberately eating food produced from the same place where we worked, went to school, loved our neighbors, drank the water, and breathed the air."

Detalles

• Título Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
• Autor Barbara Kingsolver; Camille Kingsolver; Steven L. Hopp
• Encuadernación Tapa dura
• Edición First Edition
• Páginas 384
• Volúmenes 1
• Idioma ENG
• Editorial Harper, New York, USA
• Fecha de publicación 2007
• Ilustrado Sí
• Features Bibliography, Illustrated
• ISBN 9780060852559 / 0060852550
• Peso 1.54 libras (0.70 kg)
• Dimensiones 9 x 6.12 x 1.17 pulgadas (22.86 x 15.54 x 2.97 cm)
• Nivel de lectura 1160
• Library of Congress subjects Farm life - Appalachian Region, Southern, Country life - Appalachian Region, Southern
• Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2006053516
• Dewey Decimal Code 641.097