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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Kingsolver

A friend passed along a fascinating book by one of my favorite fiction authors, Barbara Kingsolver, who wrote the cross-culturally unforgetable Poisonwood Bible, and many other very readable books. This book is about how her family vowed to eat locally for one year. I haven’t finished it yet, this is not a book review, but I am trying to think how eating locally would apply in Kuwait.

We would have a year-round supply of fish, which I love. We would have spinach in December and January, and those wonderful Kuwaiti tomatoes in the Spring. Cilantro, green onions and mint are grown year round, too, I think, and we would have chickens and eggs and maybe some sheep – or does most of the sheep in Kuwait come from elsewhere? Pomgranates? Pistacios?

I need YOUR help. What would our diet look like in Kuwait if everything we ate were local? Which month would we be able to eat what? What could we preserve in some way – drying, canning, freezing – for future months?

What grain would we have? Let’s say keep the food “local” and give ourselves a 100 mile radius. What would we eat?

April 6, 2008 Posted by intlxpatr | Books, Community, Cooking, ExPat Life, Family Issues, Health Issues, Living Conditions | food issues, local grown foods | 5 Comments