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Loading... Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locallyby Alisa Smith
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. kmoellering | Jun 15, 2009 |   The idea was great and I think Alisa and James did a good job explaining and carrying out their experiment. It was well written and interesting, but the book was peppered with snide relationship comments that I could have done without. Regardless, I'm convinced that local eating is the way to go! (  )whereonearth07 | Jan 22, 2009 | I read The 100-Mile Diet about a month ago when I went to my friends cottage. I picked it up on a whim. I had been hearing about it for ages, as has everyone else. Especially if you are the type to lurk on food blogs (I’m a good lurker) or are Canadian and read any Canadian media (especially arts media). In in a fit of what can only be called insanity, Alisa Smith and Jame MacKinnon decided that for a whole YEAR they would eat only local produce. Local being food whose source is within a 100-mile radius of their apartment. Gutsy. Interesting. But quite potentially insane. Read the rest here . (  )sassymonkey | Dec 30, 2008 | I wanted to love this book--I tried to read it because I think the concept of the 100 mile diet sounds fabulous and challenging, and I wondered how the originators could cope with committing to a whole year. But for some reason, I just couldn't get through it. mochap | Dec 10, 2008 | The concept is interesting, eat only those items that are produced/grown within 100 miles however their implementation seemed a little martyr-ish. They wanted you to believe that they had survived and it was very difficult but there were many things that they could have done but didn't. They talked about one woman whose son survived on elk meat but I didn't hear one story of their talks about it, just defrosting the old hamburger from the freezer. They also seemed to spend a lot of time in their car driving and looking for items. Is it really likely and economical for someone to drive 90 miles just to find walnuts and then they have to drive back. What happens if everyone did that? What would that do to pollution, maybe the idea is more sound to have local grocery stores that collect good from within 100 miles so folks could ride their bikes instead of everyone driving their car. Just a thought, some items seemed a little too far fetched and almost like they were making it too difficult. I understand their point about folks not knowing where their food comes from I just don't care for the way they chose to tell it. ( )sunfi | Nov 29, 2008 | 0.042 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 030734732X, Hardcover)Like many great adventures, the 100-mile diet began with a memorable feast. Stranded in their off-the-grid summer cottage in the Canadian wilderness with unexpected guests, Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon turned to the land around them. They caught a trout, picked mushrooms, and mulled apples from an abandoned orchard with rose hips in wine. The meal was truly satisfying; every ingredient had a story, a direct line they could trace from the soil to their forks. The experience raised a question: Was it possible to eat this way in their everyday lives?Back in the city, they began to research the origins of the items that stocked the shelves of their local supermarket. They were shocked to discover that a typical ingredient in a North American meal travels roughly the distance between Boulder, Colorado, and New York City before it reaches the plate. Like so many people, Smith and MacKinnon were trying to live more lightly on the planet; meanwhile, their “SUV diet” was producing greenhouse gases and smog at an unparalleled rate. So they decided on an experiment: For one year they would eat only food produced within 100 miles of their Vancouver home. It wouldn’t be easy. Stepping outside the industrial food system, Smith and MacKinnon found themselves relying on World War II–era cookbooks and maverick farmers who refused to play by the rules of a global economy. What began as a struggle slowly transformed into one of the deepest pleasures of their lives. For the first time they felt connected to the people and the places that sustain them. For Smith and MacKinnon, the 100-mile diet became a journey whose destination was, simply, home. From the satisfaction of pulling their own crop of garlic out of the earth to pitched battles over canning tomatoes, Plenty is about eating locally and thinking globally. The authors’ food-focused experiment questions globalization, monoculture, the oil economy, environmental collapse, and the tattering threads of community. Thought-provoking and inspiring, Plenty offers more than a way of eating. In the end, it’s a new way of looking at the world. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:53 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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