Abandoned by Booklikes
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Weird. Thought I added this book eons ago and couldn’t find it.
If the book was mostly the history of food and the best times to eat it I would love this. Instead I feel like I’m being lectured and am starting to get annoyed. Got to love Kingsolver excusing tobacco farmers but acting like most of us don’t eat from the land cause we’re just uneducated or lazy.
I grew up eating what my family grew in our gardens year round and we got meat from
local farmers. We only had fast food rarely as a treat. When I moved away to VA to work in DC I was poor as hell and ate ramen for like two years. Heck I ate ramen during grad school but at least I could return home to still be fed b my mom. Living in cities makes it harder to get locally grown food. Even if you have farmers market you still need to be able to travel there and purchase the food and then get home. I just don’t like the idea if you’re not shopping at farmers markets you’re just off killing your body with the food you put in it. I don’t like scare mongering around eating.
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