![]() ![]() They would work the farm and live on local or home-grown food for a full calendar year. cities, it might as well be a space station where human sustenance is concerned”) and moved to Virginia, where they already owned a farm in an Appalachian hollow. They decided to leave their arid life in Tucson (“like many other modern U.S. ![]() Their basic plan to change their way of living was not unique by either culinary or publishing standards. ![]() Kingsolver and her family would describe their adventure in other terms, but experiments in studied simplicity are increasingly frequent. “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle” is a wonderfully neighborly account of stunt eating. Kingsolver also finds ways to convey what it’s like to be showered with friends’ plants as birthday gifts, regard a full supply of potatoes as “homeland security,” and fend off the amorous attention of a lovesick turkey hen. While she is cogent and illuminating about serious matters of nutrition, Ms. Barbara Kingsolver’s way is both folksy and smart. There are many ways for a writer to tell you to eat your vegetables: earnestly, humorously, scientifically, self-righteously, instructively or so voluptuously that the page practically reeks of fertilizer. ![]()
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