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Big Ivy
Big Ivy Book Club
of its life.” The shoot of the plant
By Nancy Dillingham
emerges from the ground “like a
snub-nosed green snake.” An aspar-
The Big Ivy Book Club will meet agus bed can keep producing for 20
at 10 am on Sept. 26 at the Big Ivy or 30 years, and you have to wait
Community Center on Dillingham three years to harvest.
Road to discuss Animal, Vegetable, Kingsolver acknowledges her
Miracle: A Year of Food Life by writ- mentors, among them the poet
er Barbara Kingsolver with sidebars Wendell Berry. “Everything we’ve
by her husband Steven and daugh- said here, Wendell said first,” she
ter Camille. writes.
Kingsolver writes about leaving Kingsolver ends her book with
her home in Arizona to begin a new her rediscovery that “we are what
life in southern Appalachia where we eat” and notes that on her jour-
her husband had owned a piece of ney she has been joined by others,
land for 20 years. so that the drive for local food has
The family moves into a rough become a full-blown movement.
cabin while fixing up the 100-year- “We had undertaken a life change
old farmhouse and decide to live partly as a reaction against living
on whatever they can grow and/ in a snappily-named diet culture:
or buy within a few miles of their now this lifestyle had its own snap-
home. Writes the author simply, py diet name: ‘The 100-Mile Diet
“We wanted to live on a place that Challenge.’”
could feed us.” She goes on to write,
“We had come to the farmland to
eat deliberately.”
One of the “miracles” I learned
about was her tale of the asparagus.
The earliest recipes for this vegeta-
ble are about 2,500 years old, writ-
ten in ancient Greek and Egyptian
hieroglyphics. The asparagus “only
looks like its picture for one day
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