Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle is a good read so far

I have never read any of Barbara Kingsolver's novels (recommendations, anyone?) but I had to pick up this book when I was at Powells last week. I read about it in Sojourners magazine, I think. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life is the narrative-treatise-inspirational tale of the time when Kingsolver and her husband and their two girls moved back to the family farm in Appalachia and determined as a family to eat locally--from their own farm or their neighbor's--for a year. I love Kingsolver's narrative voice and the interwining of the nearly forgotton history of agriculture and food consumption in the United States (and around the world). Also interspersed within the narrative are essays by her husband and her teenage daughter, who also includes some of her favorite recipes.

The book just feels good to read. The cover paper is very tactile and the pages of the book are the uneven, raw cut kind, which I love. The ideas in the book are great food for the mind and soul too--not to mention the body.