Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - Our Year of Seasonal Eating

Informationen zum Autor Barbara Kingsolver is the global prize-winning and bestselling author of novels including Unsheltered, Flight Behaviour, The Lacuna, The Poisonwood Bible and Demon Copperhead , as well as books of poetry, essays and creative non-fiction. Her work of narrative non-fiction is the influential bestseller Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. Kingsolver's work has been translated into more than thirty languages and has earned literary awards and a devoted readership at home and abroad. She has won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction and is the first author to win the Women's Prize twice. Barbara lives with her family on a farm in southern Appalachia. Klappentext Barbara Kingsolver opens her home to us as she and her family embark on a year of eating only local food, much of it produced from their own garden, in an attempt to reduce their ecological footprint. With characteristic warmth, Kingsolver shows us how to put food back at the centre of the political and family agenda. Zusammenfassung Opens the author's home to us, as she and her family attempt a year of eating only local food, much of it from their own garden. This title shows us how to put food back at the centre of the political and family agenda. It is full of original recipes that celebrate healthy eating, sustainability and the pleasures of good food.

Product details

• Authors: Barbara Kingsolver
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.04.2008
• EAN: 9780571233571
• ISBN: 978-0-571-23357-1
• No. of pages: 370
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Guides > Food & drink > General, dictionaries, tables; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Agriculture, horticulture; forestry, fishing, food; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature and society: general, reference works; Botanik und Pflanzenwissenschaften, Kochen, Essen und Trinken, Belletristik und verwandte Gebiete, Memoiren, Berichte/Erinnerungen, Soziale Auswirkungen von Umweltfaktoren, Englische Bücher / Biografie, Erinnerung, Erinnerung / Literatur, Kochen / Roman, Erzählung, Essay