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Book Review of Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
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Ee-eu! I abandoned this book after page ten but I admit I skimmed many sections, read the ending and checked out the references, sidebar sources and organizations listed at the end. I've had a garden all my life and enjoy the freshness of what I can grow. However, I still enjoy being able to find bananas, papayas, pineapple, kiwi and other good foods that provide the wonderful variety I enjoy at my table. Incidentally, I cannot grow these foods in the climate where I live nor can I find the many marvelous cheeses that I adore. My first impression was that the author moved to this location to please her husband, and, incidentally, wouldn't it make a good book? Perhaps fiction is a better genre for such a talented writer.