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4.1 AVERAGE
4.1 AVERAGE
I am currently reading this and its going slowly, but its good. The plight of her local organic tomatoe farmers is really touching.
Our book club spent months slowly reading through this book. Great story offering encouragement, recipes, and suggestions on how to eat local, have a garden, support farmers, etc.
I liked this book overall. There was a lot of information, but almost a little too much. It was more a compilation of research than the family's story about their "food life" journey.
Sometimes got slow...had to push myself to finish it. Overall worth reading though and lots of good recipes.
Rated three stars because Barbara Kingsolver is a fantastic writer. While the case she makes is legitimate - we as a people have forgotten our roots in farming, so to speak - she definitely has a reason for writing this book. While I can see where she's coming from, there are much better and less-obvious (thus less tedious) ways to present the information without making your reader feel like, if they question what you say, they're obviously wrong.
Overall, I did like the argument she presented, and it made me question how I eat, but I think Michael Pollan is more tactful with this sort of complex argument.
Overall, I did like the argument she presented, and it made me question how I eat, but I think Michael Pollan is more tactful with this sort of complex argument.
3.5 stars. Not what I would normally read, and although I found some parts to be a tad dull, a lot of it was very informative and interesting. I did skip some pages involving the animals, for obvious reasons.
Full of early 2007 fatness as a failing of culture and morals BS. I couldn’t take this Michael Polanesque vilification of processed food any more.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Classism