Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

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A NIMAL, VEGETABLE, M IRACLE A Year of Food Life BARBARA KINGSOLVER with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver origin al dra win ...

In memory of Jo Ellen ...

CONTENTS - 1. Called Home / - 2. Waiting for Asparagus: Late March - 3. Springing Forward - 4. Stalking the Vegetannual ...

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September June October August July May “Picture a single imaginary plant, bearing throughout one season all the different vegeta ...

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1 • CALLED HOME This story about good food begins in a quick- stop convenience market. It was our family’s last day in Arizona, ...

2 animal, vegetable, miracle tier of U.S. states came into a third consecutive year of drought, people elsewhere debated how ser ...

called home 3 child came along shortly) loved playing in the creek, catching turtles, ex- periencing real mud. I liked working t ...

4 animal, vegetable, miracle is a river that no longer reaches the ocean, but peters out in a sand fl at near the Mexican border ...

called home 5 tion material, and for eats, a corn- and-beans diet organized around late summer monsoons, garnished in spring wit ...

6 animal, vegetable, miracle tion boom of the mid- nineties, 85 percent of the state’s water still went to thirsty crops like co ...

called home 7 As we gathered our loot onto the counter the sky darkened suddenly. After two hundred consecutive cloudless days, ...

8 animal, vegetable, miracle A good crack of thunder boomed, and the rain let loose just as the waitress came back to clear our ...

called home 9 grandparents’ generation had an intuitive sense of agricultural basics: when various fruits and vegetables come in ...

10 animal, vegetable, miracle every attempt to feed ourselves animals and vegetables whose provenance we really knew. We tried t ...

called home 11 We don’t know beans about beans. Asparagus, potatoes, turkey drumsticks—you name it, we don’t have a clue how the ...

12 animal, vegetable, miracle yard vegetable garden was a howling curiosity for the boys who ran wild in the alley. He befriende ...