Book Review: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Rusty Dixon loaned me this great book by Barbara Kingsolver. The book is the story of a family’s quest to eat only local food for a year. As worthy as the goal is that could have been a fairly dry subject. Barbara Kingsolver’s wit and style successfully avoided that problem. The book holds one’s interest from beginning to end, with a series of great stories, political commentary and interesting recipes.
The book is not really a “how to” gardening book; but there is a lot of useful information for gardeners. The stories are entertaining and thought provoking. Rusty came by yesterday to pick up the book and we talked about it. We also talked about the shortage of zucchini this year in both of our gardens. Barbara Kingsolver complained about being unwelcome everywhere because people were afraid she would give them zucchini. Not this year. I did have that experience with Kale.
The ending of the book (It is not a novel, I can tell you the ending) is the story about the horny turkeys and their egg raising adventures. It was a great capstone for a great book. I recommend this book for all gardeners. I especially recommend it for all non-gardeners.
David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://www.segrestrealty.com , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/.
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