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Kingsolver feels strongly that the food she and her family eat should be locally grown, raised by themselves,or done without. This book is the story of their first year as locavores, and is surprisingly dull. This seems a little harsh, but there is too much preaching in this book for me- if I wanted to read about the politics of food I would look elsewhere. I thought it would be about the family learning to live out of the fast lane, with anecdotes and chickens. Ok, there are chickens, and anecd
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Kingsolver is absolutely correct about one key point - local, in season food is utterly delicious, which I never really appreciated until I moved to Oregon and latched on to the delightful and varied products of nearby growers. While I find some of her broad-scale prescriptions a bit pie-in-the-sky, you can reap tastier meals if you follow her general idea of eating with the seasons (even if your area isn't as agriculturally rich) and cooking more at home. Food is, and should be, a pleasure, and
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