My roommate gave me a copy of Animal, Vegetable, Miracle for xmas. Yes, I am late to the party, as usual; I know everybody's been talking about it for months now. But anyway, it's great. For my money, better than The Omnivore's Dilemma, which I did love. (Although, The Botany of Desire was better, I thought and it was Fast Food Nation and The Jungle that really made my shopping habits what they are today.) Now that my vacation is ending (cue sobbing), I'll have *so* much time to write about it. Because I am sure nobody else in the world of food blogs has talked about it yet.
Who else has read it? Chicory, A, this is right up y'all's alley. Not an euphemism. I swear.
Now, ask me why I do book links with Powell's.
Whoa, that's a lot of links, little lady.....
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alright. I have always wondered...why do you do book links with powells?
why? why?!!!!!
that book looks really good. Damn my library list is getting big.
xo
you might like this new pollen book too:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17725932&ft=1&f=1032
I LOVE LOVE LOVE Barbara Kingsolver. I started Animal, Vegetable, Miracle over the summer, but I didn't buy it, I checked it out from the public library, and it had a waiting list. That gave me two weeks, and I didn't get it done in two weeks, so I never got back to it. However. I made sure it was on my school library's fall order, so now I can check it out for as long as I want!! Heh. Thanks for reminding me to get back to it.
Yeah - I've read bits of it. Ducks has read it through though and I really enjoyed her popping her head up constantly with bits of interesting food trivia...
like buckwheat is from the rhubarb family...who'd have thunk?
I link with Powells' because B&N is the devil (as are cell phones and plackets on children's coats). I worked at a local independent bookstore when B&N came to town and so got all the dirt about huge chain bookstores buying huge, huge quantities of books from publishers (hence the 10% off everyday deal) and then sending the vast majority of them back, putting small publishers, who cannot absorb that sort of loss, at a very distinct disadvantage. The kind of disadvantage that puts them out of business. You might even say, these huge conglomerates could control the publishing industry.
is amazon the devil too? i bet they are b/c the author doesn't get much, do they. i will go google "placket" now....
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