If you haven't read this book, you might want to pick it up. Barbara Kingsolver is a well-known author of quite a few tomes, but in this one, she switches from fiction to non-fiction. The book chronicles a year in the life of her family as they move from the south-west to Appalachia.
Not only do they move, they decide to change their entire lifestyle by growing almost everything they eat, or at least getting it as local as possible if they can't make it themselves. They avoid foods not grown in their area such as bananas, although each member of the family is allowed to keep one vice.
The book is lyrical and prose-like at times, and full of recipes and canning methods that would make almost anybody want to have a farm, or at least a small garden. Their new lifestyle is not easy, and Kingsolver discusses the bumps in the road that eventually smooth out or at least teach an important lesson.
This book is also "laugh out loud" funny. It's available in hardback for sale, or check it out at the local library.
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