Reviews
[Written] with passion and hope…This novelist paints a compelling big picture-broad and ambitious, with nary an extraneous stroke., Kingsolver, who writes evocatively about our connection to place, does so here with characteristic glowing prose. She provides the rapture., If you're interested in learning more about healthful eating, you'll want to read…ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MIRACLE., Engaging…Absorbing…Lovely food writing…[Kingsolver] succeeds at adopting the warm tone of a confiding friend., I Defy Anyone to Read this Book and Walk Away from It Without Gaining at Least the Desire to Change., Charming...and persuasive...Each season-and chapter-unfolds with a natural rhythm and mouth-watering appeal., Kingsolver.adds enough texture and zest to stir wistful yearnings in all of us...[A] vicarious taste of domesticity., A terrific effort. The delight for readers.is the chance to experience the rediscovery of community through food., ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MIRACLE is a chronicle of food feats…I'm inclined to agree with most points Kingsolver makes., [Written] with passion and hope.This novelist paints a compelling big picture-broad and ambitious, with nary an extraneous stroke., Engaging.Absorbing.Lovely food writing.[Kingsolver] succeeds at adopting the warm tone of a confiding friend., Charming . . . Literary magic . . . If you love the narrative voice of Barbara Kingsolver, you will be thrilled., Delectable . . . Steeped in Elegant Prose and Seasoned with Smart Morsels about the Food Industry., [This] is a book that, without being preachy, makes a solid case for eating locally instead of globally., An impassioned, sensual, smart and witty narrative.Kinsolver is a master at leavening a serious message with humor., ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MIRACLE is a chronicle of food feats.I'm inclined to agree with most points Kingsolver makes., Classy and disarming, substantive and entertaining, earnest and funny....Kingsolver takes the genre to a new literary level., An impassioned, sensual, smart and witty narrative…Kinsolver is a master at leavening a serious message with humor., ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MIRACLE makes an important contribution to the chorus of voices calling for change.", Faithful, funny, and thought-provoking...Readers-whether vegetarian or carnivore-will not go hungry, literally or literarily., [Kingsolver is] a master storyteller, and even those who've heard this tale before will be captivated., If you...buy...one book this summer, make it this one...As satisfying and complete as a down home supper., Kingsolver elegantly chronicles a year of back-to-the-land living.Readers...will take heart and inspiration here., "Every bit as transporting as-and more ecologically relevant than-any "Year In Provence"-style escapism...Earthy...informative....[and] englightened.", Kingsolver dresses down the American food complex.These down-on-the-farm sections are inspiring and.compelling., Equal parts folk wisdom and political activism . . . This family effort instructs as much as it entertains., Kingsolver…adds enough texture and zest to stir wistful yearnings in all of us...[A] vicarious taste of domesticity., Homespun, unassuming, informed, positive, inspiring. . . . Unstinting in its concerns about this imperiled planet., Anyone who read and appreciated THE OMNIVORE'S DILEMMA by Michael Pollan will want to read Barbara Kingsolver's book., Kingsolver elegantly chronicles a year of back-to-the-land living…Readers...will take heart and inspiration here., If you're interested in learning more about healthful eating, you'll want to read.ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MIRACLE., Other notable writers have addressed this topic, but Kingsolver claims it as her own....Self-deprecating instead of self-righteous., A terrific effort. The delight for readers…is the chance to experience the rediscovery of community through food., Kingsolver dresses down the American food complex…These down-on-the-farm sections are inspiring and…compelling.
