Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

called home 13 Now, it’s fair to say, the majority of us don’t want to be farmers, see farm- ers, pay farmers, or hear their com ...

14 animal, vegetable, miracle sands of other starch- or oil- based chemicals. Cattle and chickens were brought in off the pastur ...

called home 15 HFCS is up by 1000 percent. About a third of all our calories now come from what is known, by community consent, ...

16 animal, vegetable, miracle consume many courses in a meal but the portions of the fatty ones tend to be tiny; they smoke like ...

called home 17 bookstores and bellies, one after another, at the scale of the national best seller. Nine out of ten nutritionist ...

18 animal, vegetable, miracle We’re a nation with an eating disorder, and we know it. The multiple maladies caused by bad eating ...

called home 19 what it does to us, the consumers who are financing it. The Green Revo- lution of the 1970s promised that industr ...

20 animal, vegetable, miracle ingredient lists. However, banning is negative and therefore fails as a food culture per se. Somet ...

called home 21 understand something about what they do, and consider oneself basically in their court. This book is about those ...

22 animal, vegetable, miracle arts of food production. We hoped to prove—at least to ourselves—that a family living on or near g ...

2 • WAITING FOR ASPARAGUS Late March A question was nagging at our family now, and it was no longer, “When do we get there?” It ...

24 animal, vegetable, miracle she kept her sled parked on the porch and developed rituals to enhance the odds. With our local- f ...

waiting for asparagus 25 ful, the much- anticipated first real vegetable of the year. If the Europeans could make a big deal of ...

26 animal, vegetable, miracle property. Year by year we’ve enriched the soil with compost and cover crops, and planted the banks ...

waiting for asparagus 27 been deprived of sunlight by a heavy mulch pulled up over the plant’s crown. European growers go to thi ...

28 animal, vegetable, miracle roads where it grew. The biggest problem is finding it, among tall weeds, in the first day after e ...

waiting for asparagus 29 May, unless you live in New Zealand or South America. Some California farmers have worked out a way to ...

30 animal, vegetable, miracle The plant’s edible portion, however, is direly short- lived. The mo- ment the asparagus neck goes ...

waiting for asparagus 31 Routine Maintenance Department over to the Division of Recreation. It’s hard to reduce our modern compl ...

32 animal, vegetable, miracle Waiting for the quality experience seems to be the constitutional article that has slipped from Am ...