Luckily we have many things to share and discuss other than books. Since our local library system had one copy of this month's book, only two of our nine read it. "In The Devil's Garden" proved to be an interesting concept poorly executed. Add that to the fact that the writing was terrible, and we quickly moved on.
Two of us also read "Plenty" by the couple noted for the 100-Mile Diet (Alisa Smith & J.B. MacKinnon). http://100milediet.org This is a lovely book with an Animal, Vegetable, Miracle feel to it. A welcome change after the Michael Pollan books. The writing is engaging with each author alternating chapters, giving the reader an interesting look into how this real-life-couple faced this challenge. The setting is urban Vancouver, a small apartment, no yard and a rented plot of land just bigger than a bread box for growing produce.
We had a great conversation about the raw food movement after Karen read "Raw Food Life Force Energy" by Natalia Rose. The book offers a way to "break out of our destructive, energy-draining patterns of poor eating, unsuccessful dieting, and stressful living to lift ourselves to a whole new stratosphere of well-being." Found that info on http://www.rawguru.com.
In between stories about vacations, ex's, weddings and meeting my dad, we also talked about small batch preserves ("Well Preserved" by Eugenia Bone) and a blogger of interest at pantrydiva.com.
From here we plan to continue devouring books about food and the people who get us thinking about our traceability, while easing our way back to stories we can sink our teeth into.
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Brava!
Of course I particularly loved the reference to the pink toe-nailed dog!!!!
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