Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
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"Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing."
Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
"And here is the shocking plot twist: as farmers produced those extra calories, the food industry figured out how to get them into the bodies of people who didn't really want to eat 700 more calories a day."
Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
"Spring is made of solid, fourteen-karat gratitude, the reward for the long wait. Every religious tradition from the northern hemisphere honors some form of April hallelujah, for this is the season of exquisite redemption, a slam-bang return to joy after a season of cold second thoughts."
Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
"Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly."
Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
"This story about good food begins in a quick-stop convenience market."
Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
"Our holiday food splurge was a small crate of tangerines, which we found ridiculously thrilling after an eight-month abstinence from citrus.... Lily hugged each one to her chest before undressing it as gently as a doll. Watching her do that as she sat cross-legged on the floor one morning in pink pajamas, with bliss lighting her cheeks, I thought: Lucky is the world, to receive this grateful child. Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing."
Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
"Each food items in a typical U.S. meal has traveled an average of 1,500 miles....If every U.S. citizen ate just one meal a week (any meal) composed of locally and organically raised meats and produce we would reduce our country's oil consumption by over 1.1 million barrels of oil every week."
Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
"I asked Elsie how much food they needed from outside the community. 'Flour and sugar,' she said, and then thought a bit. 'Sometimes we'll buy pretzels as a spl"
Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life