Here’s the reading for Thursday night’s class — the first chapter from Barbara Kingsolver’s book, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, in which she tells how she and her family grew their own food for a year (or bought it locally), and everything they learned as a result.
http://manifestneoteny.net/kingsolver.pdf
To download that, right-click on the filename and save it to your computer. Of course, you can also read it online — you’ll want to rotate the file, though!
It’s a little longer than our readings have been, but much easier than the Goffman reading. Please read it before class and come in ready to talk about it — think about what it would be like to grow your own food, for instance, and to make the choices Kingsolver and her family have made.
Growing up in India, I can clearly remember visiting my uncles farmhouse, where he would grow a variety of different fresh vegetables and fruits. They would grow according to seasons and every now and then i would love to go there and pick some myself. I can remember the taste being much more lively and fresh than today’s artificially grown vegetables and steroid induced fruits.
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i prefer the local foods than the imported foods because they are fresh and have more flavors> my country has a tropical weather which is suitable for all kinds of different foods growing up every year> the imported foods need to take a long time to be transported to the market> farmers had to use some chemicals to keep foods remain fresh i suggest that we should buy local foods for its freshness and healthy