Book Study: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Wednesday mornings
February 3 - March 3
10:00 - 11:00 am
5-week book study open to all
Bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver offers her first nonfiction narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat.
With characteristic poetry and pluck, Barbara Kingsolver and her family sweep readers along on their journey away from the industrial-food pipeline to a rural life in which they vow to buy only food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it.
Their good-humored search yields surprising discoveries about turkey sex life and overly zealous zucchini plants, en route to a food culture that's better for the neighborhood and also better on the table. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle makes a passionate case for putting the kitchen back at the center of family life and diversified farms at the center of the American diet.
"This is the story of a year in which we made every attempt to feed ourselves animals and vegetables whose provenance we really knew . . . and of how our family was changed by our first year of deliberately eating food produced from the same place where we worked, went to school, loved our neighbors, drank the water, and breathed the air."
February 3 - March 3
10:00 - 11:00 am
5-week book study open to all
Bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver offers her first nonfiction narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat.
With characteristic poetry and pluck, Barbara Kingsolver and her family sweep readers along on their journey away from the industrial-food pipeline to a rural life in which they vow to buy only food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it.
Their good-humored search yields surprising discoveries about turkey sex life and overly zealous zucchini plants, en route to a food culture that's better for the neighborhood and also better on the table. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle makes a passionate case for putting the kitchen back at the center of family life and diversified farms at the center of the American diet.
"This is the story of a year in which we made every attempt to feed ourselves animals and vegetables whose provenance we really knew . . . and of how our family was changed by our first year of deliberately eating food produced from the same place where we worked, went to school, loved our neighbors, drank the water, and breathed the air."
For this book study, we'll be using the 2007 version of Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. Please get a copy of the book and read the first four chapters in preparation for the first meeting.
Cost: By donation to support the Women's Center's ability to continue providing quality programming.
Registration required: Space is limited. Please register and we'll email the link to join.
Registration required: Space is limited. Please register and we'll email the link to join.
Please complete your registration by doing both of the following:
- 1. Make your donation here:
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- 2. Register on Zoom HERE
Questions?
Contact us at info@womenscenterforhealing.org or (985) 892-8111
Contact us at info@womenscenterforhealing.org or (985) 892-8111
