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Book review: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver

January 8, 2008 by Andrea Bellamy 6 Comments

I just finished reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver. Subtitled “A Year of Food Life,” it’s a personal account of back-to-the-land living crossed with an inquiry into the (big) business of food. It’s not a new book (it came out last spring), nor is it a new concept. But whether Kingsolver’s arguments for eating […]

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