Need any last-minute holiday gifts? Browse a bookstore and ask what your bookseller recommends. Booksellers are amazing resources. I’m currently reading a fascinating, engrossing book that I would never in a million years have picked up, let alone purchased, if my local bookseller hadn’t recommended it.
The book I’m reading is Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver. She’s known for her fiction, but this non-fiction work is one I’m very glad I didn’t miss. It deals with the politics and practicalities of food production, from small family farms to organic to mass production for cheap calories and the resulting nutritional, economic and ecological cost.
Whatever your interests, or those of the hard-to-shop-for person on your list, ask what your bookseller recommends. You may be in for a wonderful surprise.
That’s one of the books I want to read after the holidays. I saw her on a program on the weather channel, they talked about locally grown produce and how tobacco farmers in parts of the south are switching to organic produce.
Ann, I highly recommend the book. It’ll change your thinking about your buying habits, for sure!