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I agree, but I like that's she's putting it out there. Given her  
pretty popular fiction, somebody picking it up accidentally might have  
their mind blown, in a good way.

Gene is well past needing something like this but I brought it to his  
attention because it's a people grabber.


On Mar 9, 2008, at 10:01 AM, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:

> > > Have you read any of Barbara Kingsolver's stuff?
>
> Kingslover's Virginia location is Abingdon, twenty miles from here.   
> Her
> husband is a prof at Emory, another twenty miles north of there.
>
> The book is very good, but like so many imported people, Kingsolver  
> was too
> impressed witht he local grant supported "sustainable" (not!) outfit  
> run by
> professional grant-mongers.
>
> Recall that she said they had to rely on strawberry jam during the  
> winter
> because there was no local fruit available.  Pshaw!  If she had just  
> stopped at
> the Po' Boy produce stand on Main Street no less, she'd have found  
> bushels of
> locally grown apples al winter long.  And cheap too, 39 cents a pound.
>
> At best a non-local is only going to know  just so much about eating  
> local.
>
> James   </HTML>
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