Kinda OT: Book: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

[Guest guest]

I've been reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver and I'm amazed to see how close to SCD her family eats. They eat a few grains, but the bulk of their diet is home-grown fruits, vegetables, and locally-raised animal protein. The book also makes you aware of how many fossil fuels are burned transporting those Chilean blueberries in midwinter (guilty).

This is a fascinating book for anyone. I learned all sorts of interesting facts about vegetables, such as the fact that asparagus grows into a four foot leafy tree at the end of the season, and that lettuces shoot up and become inedible when they're ready to go to seed.

I've been reading a lot of these books lately because after going on the SCD I realize how much absolute *junk* the SAD diet contains.I also recommend Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma .and his follow-on book In Defense of Food (a little drier, but still interesting).

[Guest guest]

I loved Animal, Vegetable, Miracle! Great book! I'm trying to start

eating more locally, too. I'm especially particular about my meats.

I recently found a great place to get beef and pork. The store owner

raises all his own. Chicken has been the hardest to find. I still

do buy some salmon too, but buy it sustainably fished. I love to

garden but am just learning how, so I hope to grow most of my own

veggies. Now, if I can just figure out all that I can tolerate in

order to grow it . I thought B. Kingsolver's experiment was really

interesting.

I also loved Omnivore's Dilemma. I have In Defense of Food but

haven't started it yet.

Shonda

dx Microscopic Colitis Fall 2008

SCD Jan 1, 2009

allergies: egg, almonds, walnuts, peanuts, bananas, cow's milk,

goat's milk(mild)

>

> I've been reading Animal, Vegetable,

> Miracle<http://www.amazon.com/Animal-Vegetable-Miracle-Year-

Food/dp/0060852550>by

> Barbara Kingsolver and I'm amazed to see how close to SCD her family

> eats. They eat a few grains, but the bulk of their diet is home-

grown

> fruits, vegetables, and locally-raised animal protein. The book

also makes

> you aware of how many fossil fuels are burned transporting those

Chilean

> blueberries in midwinter (guilty).

> This is a fascinating book for anyone. I learned all sorts of

interesting

> facts about vegetables, such as the fact that asparagus grows into

a four

> foot leafy tree at the end of the season, and that lettuces shoot

up and

> become inedible when they're ready to go to seed.

>

> I've been reading a lot of these books lately because after going

on the SCD

> I realize how much absolute *junk* the SAD diet contains.

> I also recommend Pollan's The Omnivore's

> Dilemma<http://www.amazon.com/Omnivores-Dilemma-Natural-History-

Meals/dp/0143038583/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8 & s=books & qid=1233937581 & sr=1-1>

> .and

> his follow-on book In Defense of

> Food<http://www.amazon.com/Defense-Food-Eaters-

Manifesto/dp/1594201455/ref=sr_1_2?

ie=UTF8 & s=books & qid=1233937581 & sr=1-2>

> (a

> little drier, but still interesting).

>

[Guest guest]

I loved Animal, Vegetable, Miracle! Great book! I'm trying to start

eating more locally, too. I'm especially particular about my meats.

I recently found a great place to get beef and pork. The store owner

raises all his own. Chicken has been the hardest to find. I still

do buy some salmon too, but buy it sustainably fished. I love to

garden but am just learning how, so I hope to grow most of my own

veggies. Now, if I can just figure out all that I can tolerate in

order to grow it . I thought B. Kingsolver's experiment was really

interesting.

I also loved Omnivore's Dilemma. I have In Defense of Food but

haven't started it yet.

Shonda

dx Microscopic Colitis Fall 2008

SCD Jan 1, 2009

allergies: egg, almonds, walnuts, peanuts, bananas, cow's milk,

goat's milk(mild)

>

> I've been reading Animal, Vegetable,

> Miracle<http://www.amazon.com/Animal-Vegetable-Miracle-Year-

Food/dp/0060852550>by

> Barbara Kingsolver and I'm amazed to see how close to SCD her family

> eats. They eat a few grains, but the bulk of their diet is home-

grown

> fruits, vegetables, and locally-raised animal protein. The book

also makes

> you aware of how many fossil fuels are burned transporting those

Chilean

> blueberries in midwinter (guilty).

> This is a fascinating book for anyone. I learned all sorts of

interesting

> facts about vegetables, such as the fact that asparagus grows into

a four

> foot leafy tree at the end of the season, and that lettuces shoot

up and

> become inedible when they're ready to go to seed.

>

> I've been reading a lot of these books lately because after going

on the SCD

> I realize how much absolute *junk* the SAD diet contains.

> I also recommend Pollan's The Omnivore's

> Dilemma<http://www.amazon.com/Omnivores-Dilemma-Natural-History-

Meals/dp/0143038583/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8 & s=books & qid=1233937581 & sr=1-1>

> .and

> his follow-on book In Defense of

> Food<http://www.amazon.com/Defense-Food-Eaters-

Manifesto/dp/1594201455/ref=sr_1_2?

ie=UTF8 & s=books & qid=1233937581 & sr=1-2>

> (a

> little drier, but still interesting).

>

[Guest guest]

I loved Animal, Vegetable, Miracle! Great book! I'm trying to start

eating more locally, too. I'm especially particular about my meats.

I recently found a great place to get beef and pork. The store owner

raises all his own. Chicken has been the hardest to find. I still

do buy some salmon too, but buy it sustainably fished. I love to

garden but am just learning how, so I hope to grow most of my own

veggies. Now, if I can just figure out all that I can tolerate in

order to grow it . I thought B. Kingsolver's experiment was really

interesting.

I also loved Omnivore's Dilemma. I have In Defense of Food but

haven't started it yet.

Shonda

dx Microscopic Colitis Fall 2008

SCD Jan 1, 2009

allergies: egg, almonds, walnuts, peanuts, bananas, cow's milk,

goat's milk(mild)

>

> I've been reading Animal, Vegetable,

> Miracle<http://www.amazon.com/Animal-Vegetable-Miracle-Year-

Food/dp/0060852550>by

> Barbara Kingsolver and I'm amazed to see how close to SCD her family

> eats. They eat a few grains, but the bulk of their diet is home-

grown

> fruits, vegetables, and locally-raised animal protein. The book

also makes

> you aware of how many fossil fuels are burned transporting those

Chilean

> blueberries in midwinter (guilty).

> This is a fascinating book for anyone. I learned all sorts of

interesting

> facts about vegetables, such as the fact that asparagus grows into

a four

> foot leafy tree at the end of the season, and that lettuces shoot

up and

> become inedible when they're ready to go to seed.

>

> I've been reading a lot of these books lately because after going

on the SCD

> I realize how much absolute *junk* the SAD diet contains.

> I also recommend Pollan's The Omnivore's

> Dilemma<http://www.amazon.com/Omnivores-Dilemma-Natural-History-

Meals/dp/0143038583/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8 & s=books & qid=1233937581 & sr=1-1>

> .and

> his follow-on book In Defense of

> Food<http://www.amazon.com/Defense-Food-Eaters-

Manifesto/dp/1594201455/ref=sr_1_2?

ie=UTF8 & s=books & qid=1233937581 & sr=1-2>

> (a

> little drier, but still interesting).

>