Recipe for a Best Seller, Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

Take 12 eggs, one for each month, purchased from budding entrepreneur (daughter Lily--9), These describe the gardening and farming work needed to eat local organic food. Add trips as follows:

• visit the requisite Amish farmers (in Ohio?)
  
• visit Farmer's Diner in central Vermont
  
• spend a week or more on holiday basking in the Tuscany sun during summer and eating Italian.
  

Stir in recipes from older daughter at regular intervals.
Add "facts" and editorials from husband.

Mix well with cups of romantic nostalgia (i.e, for childhood in tobacco country in Kentucky and the old ways of growing and eating), concern for the environment and global warming, populist anger against industrial food and the tycoons who govern our eating.

Season with spicy bits about the sex life of turkeys and the mating patterns of poultry.

Serve with a warm sauce of very well written prose. (What the McKibbens, Pollans, and Kingsolvers of the world lack in the quantity of accurate facts they more than make up for with the quality of their prose.)