The 100-Mile Diet
A Year of Local Eating
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 su…
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Weitere Autoren: Mackinnon, J. B.
- ISBN: 978-0-307-37117-1
- EAN: 9780307371171
- Produktnummer: 15731265
- Verlag: Random House of Canada
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 408 KB
Über den Autor
Alisa Smith, a Vancouver-based freelance writer who has been nominated for a National Magazine Award, has been published in Outside, Explore, Canadian Geographic, Reader's Digest, Utne, and many other periodicals. The books Way Out There and Liberalized feature her work. J.B. MacKinnon is the author of Dead Man in Paradise, which won the 2006 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-fiction. His feature reportage on issues ranging from African prisons to anarchism in America has earned three National Magazine Awards.
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