Plenty: Eating Locally on the 100-Mile Diet: A Cookbook, (Paperback)

from rainbooks

People around the country are finding out that eating locally grown foods, compared to eating food grown thousands of miles away, is better for the consumer, the community and the earth. Alisa Smith and J.B. Mackinnon have contributed to that awareness with their bestselling book "Plenty: Eating ...

from GrinningSybil

The authors of this book do a great job of demonstrating how diverse the food landscape around you can be if you take the time to explore it. They live in rainy Vancouver, BC, yet manage to find olives and even wheat growing within 100 miles of their home. Many people seem to think that local eat...

from dele2451

Interesting he said/she said account of one Canadian couple's experiment to eat and drink only items grown/purchased/foraged within a 100-mile radius of their Vancouver home for an entire year. An effective yet surprisingly entertaining illustration of the inadequacies of our modern globalized fo...

from eratus

I enjoyed this book. I was surprised at how much local food the authors were able to find, though it did take quite a lot of work. They even gathered salt from the ocean at one point. There was a bit of interpersonal bickering in the book, which I found annoying. The bickering was not compelling,...

from hjjugovic

This memoir of a couple who eats only food grown within 100 miles of their home for one year seems odd at first glance. However, after doing my own experiment with local food, I totally get it. I think this book would have been more of a revelation to me if I had not read Barbara Kingsolver's "An...