Popular Diets - The 100-Mile Diet: The 100-Mile Diet is a diet based on a book, published in Canada as The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating and published in the United States as Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally, written by Alisa Smith and J. B. MacKinnon...
Smith is a freelance journalist who has taught non-fiction writing. MacKinnon wrote the award-winning historical non-fiction book Dead Man in Paradise and was an editor of Adbusters magazine. This book describes the experiences of an urban couple that, starting in March, 2005, spent a year eating only foods whose ingredients all came from within 100 miles of their home in Vancouver, Canada. The couple are longtime vegetarians and environmentalists who took the 100 mile challenge in response to the average 1500 mile journey North American food from the farm to the grocery store. They could find little local food at grocery stores, so they shopped at farmer's markets and farms. Their diet included berries, corn, chicken, root vegetables, and seafood, but they had to do without cooking oil, rice, and sugar.
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