In my quest to love veggies, I thought I would read some books about them.  I’m still not quite finished with this book but thought I’d take the time to write up some thoughts and share it here.

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle is by Barbara Kingsolver.  I’ve read and enjoyed several of her works of fiction (like The Poisonwood Bible and The Bean Trees) so I thought this might be interesting to read how she spent a year focusing on eating local.  This book is very long but I got it as an audio download from the library so I’m able to push through it in spurts on my iPod.

There have been times where I’ve felt that the author could just “get on with it”.  She spends a lot of time talking politics, food science, etc… and while I know this is an important part of her argument, I think it takes her a little too long to make her points.  The sidebars written by her husband, on the other hand, are short and to the point.  I appreciate that.  Maybe this wouldn’t matter so much to me if I had more time to listen to a book about food.

One major thing I will take away from this book is to support local food sources.  I’m lucky enough to live in Nebraska and we have plenty of opportunity to buy local produce and meat.  I know there are some grocery stores in the area that carry locally grown produce as well.

Eating in season is another concept that I’ll try to do more of.  I’m hoping that by eating locally grown, in season vegetables that I’ll like them more.  It’s worth a shot, right?