Vancouver 100 mile diet book

In 2005 they undertook an eating experiment with the goal of only consuming locally grown foods that were grown, produced and processed within a 100 mile radius of their home. While many of us would love to achieve a 100mile diet, most of us leave it as an ideal to. It would be a year without sugar, cheerios, olive oil, rice, pizza pops, beer, and much, much more. Mackinnon, authors of the 100 mile diet, tried their oneyear. Like many great adventures, the 100 mile diet began with a memorable feast. For more information on finding locally produced food visit the web site of farm folkcity folk. Eating a truly local diet for a year poses some tricky questions. Vancouver lays claim to being the spiritual home of the 100 mile diet, the concept of eating only foods grown within a 100 mile radius. As the spotlight falls on vancouver for the 2010 olympic winter games, you may be wondering. A year of local eating, a book by vancouver authors j. Vancouver city hall has a waiting list for garden plots on its north lawn. The remarkable, amusing and inspiring adventures of a canadian couple who make a yearlong attempt to eat foods grown and produced within a 100mile radius of their apartment. For one year, they would only consume food that came from within a 100 mile radius of their vancouver apartment.

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A year of local eating tells the full story, from the insights to the kitchen disasters, as the authors transform from megamart shoppers to selfsufficient urban pioneers. Random house will be publishing their 100mile diet book in canada. Fans of alisa smiths exceptional first book, the 100mile diet, which she co authored with j. Call me naive, but i never knew that flour would be struck from our 100mile diet.

Alisa smith is the coauthor of the 100mile diet with james mackinnon. Recently, the concept of the 100mile diet has gained attention after the release in april of the book plenty. 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. They started in march and had to make a few compromises to their new diet and to their vegetarian natures. They drew a circle out from vancouver to mark what seemed like local to them without leaping the rocky mountains and it worked out to a 100 mile radius.

With james mackinnon, alisa smith, noel johansen, cassie clark vernon. Online farm map for vancouver islands 100mile diet bc. One man, one woman, and a raucous year of eating locally is a nonfiction book written by canadian writers alisa smith and j. Fans of alisa smiths exceptional first book, the 100mile diet, which she coauthored with j. A year after their experiment was over, they published a book, the 100 mile diet, chronicling their adventure and struggles. If you were to fully embrace the idea, there could be worse places to do so than this attractive canadian city, blessed as it is with its proximity to the sea, the mountains and fertile farmland.

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