ABCs of Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver


"Agricultural Agnostics" p.11
Barbara Kingsolver detailing her family's attempt to eat only locally grown food for an entire year.
Chapter 1 - Called Home
"Dirt... essential to serve us - we all need to eat every day of our lives." p. 9
"Everything starts over in the springtime. " p.335
"First, Eat Your Greens" by Camille p. 59
Gratitude : May p. 100 Chapter 7
Hungry Month : Feb-March p. 19 Chapter 3
"Is it possible to explain the year we had?Jonquils called tranquils by the author's daughter Lily and it stuck p.45
"Knowing how foods grow is to know how and when to look for them" p. 10
"Leaves of Grass kind of culture" p. 4 [main ideas in Leaves of Grass are a celebration of individuality in relation to society and nature as well as a celebration of America. In addition to these, other ideas such as love, spirituality, and death are also dealt with in the book. source]
Molly Mooching April Chapter 5
Neighborly eating: "Think Locally, Act Neighborly." p. 150
"Oh man, those things touched dirt!" p. 10
"Picture a season of foods unfolding as if from one single plant. Take a minute to study this creation--an imaginary plant that bears over the course of one growing season a cornucopia of all the different vegetable products we can harvest. We’ll call it a vegetannual." P. 64
Quixotic: most often used to mean equally impractical and idealistic, it also has the sense of romantic nobility. p. 337

 "Restaurant selling food produced by farms within an hour's drive." p. 149
"Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast" Chapter 9 p.124
T. S. Eliot wrote that "April is the cruelest month... springtime makes people crazy. See "W" below
"Unfolding as if from on single plant" p. 64
Vegetannual : an imaginary plant that bears over the course of one growing season a cornucopia of all the vegetable products we can harvest." p. 64
We expect too much, the World burgeons with promises it can't keep... p.43
"eXpertise is useful for certain kinds of people, namely, the ones who eat" p. 10
"You Can't Run Away on Harvest Day: September- Chapter 14 p. 219
"Zucchini Larceny: July - Chapter 12 p. 173

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