colleen_parks 's review for:

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver

3.0

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This is the story of how Kingsolver and her family moved to a small farm in VA and ate only locally-grown foods (their own, mostly) for a year. I found the gardening parts interesting, but overall the book is kind of preachy and a bit too long. It’s preachy mainly in the sense that it provides some partial explanation of how the American food system is broken, but chances are that a lot of readers already know that (the book is a few years old now) and are likely familiar with some of the other more central books of the genre. Nonetheless, it includes some recipes and some general info that's pretty interesting and I'd give it a cautious recommendation to people interested in food, locavore, and/or gardening books with the side note that it’s easily skimmable.