![]() ![]() I get through the hibernation months by hovering as close as possible to the woodstove without actual self-immolation, and catching up on my reading, cheered at regular intervals by the excess of holidays that collect in a festive logjam at the outflow end of our calendar. I only vow each winter to try harder to live like a potato, with its tacit understanding that time is time, no matter what any clock might say. But mine is not to question those who command the springing forward and the falling back. ![]() ![]() Whose idea was it to jilt us this way, leaving us in cold November with our unsaved remnants of daylight petering out before the workday ends? In my childhood, as early as that, I remember observing the same despair every autumn: the feeling that sunshine, summertime, and probably life itself had passed me by before I'd even finished a halfway decent tree fort. Personally I would vote for one more hour of light on winter evenings instead of the sudden, extra-early blackout. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle makes a passionate case for putting the kitchen back at the center of family life and diversified farms at the center of the American diet.'This is the story of a year in which we made every attempt to feed ourselves animals and vegetables whose provenance we really knew. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Kingsolver, Barbara and Kingsolver, Camille and Hopp, Steven L. ![]() “The tunnel of winter had settled over our lives, ushered in by that great official Hoodwink, the end of daylight saving time. ![]()
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