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A Year of Local Eating
Vintage
October 2007
On Sale: October 7, 2007
272 pages
ISBN: 0679314830
EAN: 9780679314837
Hardcover
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Self-Help Diet
The remarkable, amusing and inspiring adventures of a
Canadian couple who make a year-long attempt to eat foods
grown and produced within a 100-mile radius of their apartment. When Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon learned that the
average ingredient in a North American meal travels 1,500
miles from farm to plate, they decided to launch a simple
experiment to reconnect with the people and places that
produced what they ate. For one year, they would only
consume food that came from within a 100-mile radius of
their Vancouver apartment. The 100-Mile Diet was born. The couple’s discoveries sometimes shook their resolve. It
would be a year without sugar, Cheerios, olive oil, rice,
Pizza Pops, beer, and much, much more. Yet local eating has
turned out to be a life lesson in pleasures that are always
close at hand. They met the revolutionary farmers and
modern-day hunter-gatherers who are changing the way we
think about food. They got personal with issues ranging from
global economics to biodiversity. They called on the wisdom
of grandmothers, and immersed themselves in the seasons.
They discovered a host of new flavours, from gooseberry wine
to sunchokes to turnip sandwiches, foods that they never
would have guessed were on their doorstep. The 100-Mile Diet struck a deeper chord than anyone could
have predicted, attracting media and grassroots interest
that spanned the globe. The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local
Eating tells the full story, from the insights to the
kitchen disasters, as the authors transform from megamart
shoppers to self-sufficient urban pioneers. The 100-Mile
Diet is a pathway home for anybody, anywhere.
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