Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

waiting for asparagus 33 intensive passions with devotedly healthy rations. If this project was go- ing to impose a burden, she ...

34 animal, vegetable, miracle I shifted tactics. Instead of listing what we can’t have, I said, we should outline what we knew w ...

waiting for asparagus 35 and realized I could buy any ten things there I wanted. Not the lobsters in the aquarium, okay, but not ...

36 animal, vegetable, miracle our swimsuits would not make it happen here. “Strawberries will be com- ing in soon,” I said, reco ...

waiting for asparagus 37 ket, was short on cheer under the circumstances but did have green on- ions. We’d run out of our storag ...

38 animal, vegetable, miracle boiled eggs, and experimental vinaigrettes. Next down the line we found black walnuts, painstaking ...

waiting for asparagus 39 our search for a new way to eat. It had felt arbitrary when we sat around the table with our shopping l ...

/ disgust. us then!” I decided a lifetime of lies and deception it’s easy to carry child- The Truth About Asparagus by camille W ...

waiting for asparagus 41 some B vitamins, potassium, phosphorus, and glutathione, which is a po- tent antioxidant and anticarcin ...

42 animal, vegetable, miracle Tuesday ~ Chicken soup with carrots, kale, and rice (or fresh bread) Wednesday ~ Twice- baked pota ...

3 • SPRINGING FORWARD April is the cruelest month, T. S. Eliot wrote, by which I think he meant (among other things) that spring ...

44 animal, vegetable, miracle cided it was safe to carry out some of the seedlings we’d started indoors on homemade shelves unde ...

springing forward 45 were up, poking their snub, yellow- tipped noses through a fringe of leaves. “Oh, Mama,” Lily cried, “look ...

46 animal, vegetable, miracle ters that spelled out something, like “mow me.” But in the end, after considering the fact that no ...

springing forward 47 have to be purchased again each year from the companies that create them. Genetic modification (GM) takes t ...

48 animal, vegetable, miracle saved down the generations for a reason, or for many, and in the case of vegetables one reason is ...

springing forward 49 learned to breed varieties that held up in a boxcar, truck, or ship’s cargo hold. Indestructible vegetables ...

50 animal, vegetable, miracle are the forgotten commoners. We’re losing them as fast as we’re losing rain forests. An enormous f ...

springing forward 51 ful and swift. Six companies—Monsanto, Syngenta, DuPont, Mitsui, Aventis, and Dow—now control 98 percent of ...

52 animal, vegetable, miracle bicide Roundup, so that chemicals can be sprayed over the crop. (The crop stays alive, the weeds d ...