{"id":913,"date":"2007-07-29T02:27:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-29T02:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=913"},"modified":"2007-07-29T02:27:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-29T02:27:00","slug":"animal-vegetable-wiccan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=913","title":{"rendered":"Animal, Vegetable . . . Wiccan?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle<\/em><\/a> is novelist Barbara Kingsolver’s<\/a> new nonfiction book about her family’s year of eating locally. Or to quote the blurb: “With characteristic poetry and pluck, Barbara Kingsolver and her family sweep readers along on their journey away from the industrial-food pipeline to a rural life in which they vow to buy only food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it.”<\/p>\n

The book has a Web site with more information, recipes, and local contacts<\/a>. All good.<\/p>\n

But consider this excerpt from the late-June chapter on Kingsolver’s experiments with cheese-making:<\/p>\n

I’m not sure why, since it takes less time to make a pound of mozzarella than to bake a cobbler, but most people find the idea of making cheese at home to be preposterous. If the delivery guy happens to come to the door when I’m cutting and draining curd, I feel like a Wiccan.<\/em><\/p>\n

Wiccans (a) do clandestine things in the kitchen, (b) make cheese, (c) are preposterous, (d) all of the above?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle is novelist Barbara Kingsolver’s new nonfiction book about her family’s year of eating locally. 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