Sara bongiorni biography children

Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. From pet food to playthings, Chinese-made products are difficult to avoid. But is it impossible? That's what journalist and author Sara Bongiorni tried to find out in when she, her husband and two children went a full year without buying anything manufactured in China.

Bongiorni chronicled their efforts, their slip-ups and their frustrations in her new book, "A Year Without 'Made in China'. Sara Bongiorni: It was two days after Christmas , and I was sitting on the couch surrounded by all this stuff on the floor, and I started looking at where it was from. All the toys were from China, so were the Christmas lights, the electronics, even the dog's chew toy.

So I turned to my husband and said, "Don't you think it would be fun to live for a year without China? It wasn't a protest or something political; I just wondered if a middle-class American family could go a year without goods made in China. And can you? Technically, you can, but your life would be nothing close to normal. We got through the year mostly by luck.

We didn't need a new telephone or cell phone, which, as far as I can tell, come only from China.

Drawing on her years as an award-winning journalist, author Sara Bongiorni fills this book with engaging stories and anecdotes of her family's attempt to outrun.

Also, our coffeemaker broke and we didn't replace it because we didn't want to buy an expensive one from Italy. Some things, it seems, only come from China, and doing without them for even a year is a reach. Would you take a break from "Made in China" again?