Animal, vegetable, miracle : a year of food life / Barbara Kingsolver, with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver ; original drawings by Richard A. Houser.

By: Kingsolver, BarbaraContributor(s): Hopp, Steven L, 1954- | Kingsolver, Camille, 1987-Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York ; Toronto : HarperPerennial, 2008Edition: 1st Harper Perennial edDescription: 370, 16 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN: 9781554681884; 155468188x; 9780060852566; 0060852569Subject(s): Kingsolver, Barbara | Hopp, Steven L., 1954- | Farm life -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Anecdotes | Country life -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Anecdotes | Agriculture -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Anecdotes | Food habits -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- AnecdotesLOC classification: S521.5.A67 | K56 2008
Contents:
Called home -- Waiting for asparagus: late March -- Springing forward -- Stalking the vegetannual -- Molly mooching: April -- The birds and the bees -- Gratitude: May -- Growing trust: mid-June -- Six impossible things before breakfast: late June -- Eating neighborly: late June -- Slow food nations: late June -- Zucchini larceny: July -- Life in a red state: August -- You can't run away on harvest day: September -- Where fish wear crowns: September -- Smashing pumpkins: October -- Celebration days: November-December -- What do you eat in January? -- Hungry month: February-March -- Time begins.
Summary: Follows the author's family's efforts to live on locally- and home-grown foods, an endeavor through which they learned lighthearted truths about food production and the connection between health and diet.
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Martha's Vineyard High School Library
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [364]-370)

Called home -- Waiting for asparagus: late March -- Springing forward -- Stalking the vegetannual -- Molly mooching: April -- The birds and the bees -- Gratitude: May -- Growing trust: mid-June -- Six impossible things before breakfast: late June -- Eating neighborly: late June -- Slow food nations: late June -- Zucchini larceny: July -- Life in a red state: August -- You can't run away on harvest day: September -- Where fish wear crowns: September -- Smashing pumpkins: October -- Celebration days: November-December -- What do you eat in January? -- Hungry month: February-March -- Time begins.

Follows the author's family's efforts to live on locally- and home-grown foods, an endeavor through which they learned lighthearted truths about food production and the connection between health and diet.

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