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The Origin of the Groceries
Look in your refrigerator. Is it packed with factory-farmed foods processed with pesticides, pre-packaged and trucked in from around the world? With the many benefits of modern food production come great environmental costs and nutritional sacrifice. Now author and activist Barbara Kingsolver shares with you another way to eat and live. When Kingsolver and her family moved from suburban Arizona to rural Appalachia, they took on the challenge of spending a year on a locally produced diet. Their new book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life chronicles the family’s experiment. “Food is not a product but a process,” says Kingsolver, “It is circular. It never exactly begins and it never actually ends. To participate in those interlocking and intersecting circles was a miraculous experiment. It changed us all. Learn more about the growing national movement to buy local. And hear how to put the kitchen back at the center of your family life and diversified farms back at the center of the American diet. Author, environmental activist and human-rights advocate Barbara Kingsolver has held many jobs, from archaeologist to x-ray technician, but she has always been a storyteller. “I used to beg my mother to let me tell her a bedtime story,” she says. Her works include Prodigal Summer, Poisonwood Bible and Small Wonder.
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