I don’t mean that we created a scene-not at all-but that we happened to publish our family’s story at a moment when lots of families were ready to examine and take more control of their own food stories.” What we’d thought of as our eccentric family notion broke out into something of a scene. Now it’s in the dictionary and on menus all over the place. “It was such a novel idea that we had to make up our own language for it, although the word ‘locavore’ germinated so naturally from the lexicon that it was invented simultaneously by many people at around the same time. “Ten years ago, we wrote this book about our decision to get serious with eating local, more or less forsaking all others,” Barbara writes. The Chicago Tribune named it “an important contribution to the chorus of voices calling for change.” Washington Post Book World called it, “Charming, zestful, funny and poetic…a serious book about important problems.” The family’s chronicle of struggles and triumphs as they rooted themselves to their Appalachian farm and adopted a locally-produced diet was met with critical acclaim, spent years on bestseller lists and won the James Beard Award. When published in 2007, ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MIRACLE was embraced by readers worldwide and quickly earned its place as a credo for the locavore movement.
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