# 1 Book so far this year
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
This book was soooo amazing. Not just for a foodie, but for anyone looking for an inspiring story when the world around us is sucking hardcore. I've read her Bean Trees in high school and it was filed away into the "why do we have to read this book?" file. This one, however, is awesome. Her husband and 2 daughters take a year to grow ALL of their own food, buying all other stuff locally and the rest as little as possible.
She even addresses the political divides in the country after she was deemed 74th on a list of 100 People Who are Screwing Up America (her friends ask her how she could live out way out there ), animal husbandry, teaching her young daughter how to be a food entrepreneur, and how her older daughter deals with being a college student that eats crazy stuff like bean sprouts (not just pizza and beer).
FYI:
Anyone who googled anything that led you to this blog should certainly read:
The Omnivore's Dilemma, In Defense of Food, both by Michael Pollan and This Organic Life: Confessions of a Suburban Homesteader by Joan Gussow
.....these are just a few I have read while balancing school reading, I am sure there are so many more
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