I’ve just finished reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, by Barbara Kingsolver. It is the account of her family’s one year experiment in eating locally grown food (theirs and others nearby). In order to do this, they moved from Arizona to Virginia. They already owned an old family farm in the Virginia countryside, so they didn’t have to worry about finding a suitable place.

The writing is lively and sprinkled with recipes and anecdotes from her daughter, who is a student at Duke. However, they are not vegetarians, and they consumed their own eggs as well as locally-produced meat.

I’d like to see such an account written by someone who lives in a temperate climate with a cold winter, and who observes the (Asian) vegetarian diet–no eggs, no meat, no fish, but including milk products.