Good Recipes, Good Read

I just finished this book, and being a fan of Barbara Kingsolver's already, I wasn't surprised that I enjoyed it as much as I did. It's a really good read! Totally captivating and inspiring, mind you I don't have the land or money to live the way she does but I still felt compelled to work a little harder at sourcing locally and challenging myself with more difficult recipes.

If you get a chance to read it, I recommend it. She makes a lot of interesting connections as well as delves into the complexity of the modern food machine, which I really dug. But she also incorporates her own families struggles and triumphs of eating local and whole and growing on their own. I especially enjoyed the chapter on her daughter Lily's chicken buisness.

Just when you think the world of food is doomed, you read something really encouraging like this.

"why is it always those who have the least are those who give the most..." this is when Kingsolver is talking about a group of organic farmers who were growing tomatoes specifically for a grocery store and last minute they decided to buy from international growers at o.18 cents a pound...instead of the farmers letting all the tomatoes rot, they took a loss and supplied foodbanks with fresh, local organic tomatoes..

I have a copy if anyone would like to read it!