Renowned author Barbara Kingsolver and her husband Stephen give an engaging talk at Book Passage in Corte Madera, CA, about her new book "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life" which details her family's "experiment" of eating locally for an entire year. Ms. Kingsolver and her family made the decision to move to a farmhouse in Virginia to be closer to family and to pursue the practice of getting all of their food for an entire year from things they either grew, raised, or were able to acquire within a small radius of their house. It's an enlightening and empowering view of 'living locally' -- something that we could all take to heart in this day when the food on our dinner table travels an average of 1,500 miles to get there! With simple elegance and joy, Ms. Kingsolver and her family found the process of growing and truly engaging their food was a rewarding and important exercise in how we do not have to sacrifice much -- and even benefit greatly -- to become more sustainable and renewable in our daily lives.
