Our next book purchase, bar none: Barbara Kingsolver's "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle," about eating locally. http://www.amazon.com/Animal-Vegetable-Miracle-Year-Food/dp/0060852550/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-9600151-1529545?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1177900578&sr=8-1 I love her novels, I love her essays on parenting and envioronmentalism (especially a lovely one about her daughter Lily's chickens) and this book looks so fun! The interview with her at salon.com is a good read in its own right, if only for this line: "Sometimes I see people at the gym bench-pressing until they turn purple, or running five miles in the rain after work, and I think to myself, 'Who could push themselves that hard? Not me!' And yet, walking to the garden with a hoe feels like a tryst with a lover. I adore working up a sweat on a sunny day among the sweet potatoes. I love having used every muscle I own, making food for my family. That process is deeply compelling, probably coded into our DNA."