Bonnie sterns friday night dinners although i always buy local meat and poultry, and i try to buy local produce as much as possible, i had no idea what i was in for when i agreed to host james mackinnon and alisa smith authors of the 100mile diet. Socalled 100 milers are cropping up in cities and towns everywhere and sharing their success stories and recipes on a group in powell river has took on an ambitious 50mile diet for a month, and a rebel sunshine coast farmer has started growing his own wheat. Celebrate the best of canadian writing this summer with the 100mile book diet and 49th shelfs read local map. A year of local eating is a nonfiction book written by canadian writers alisa smith and j. Zach bitter diet tips that help him break 100 mile.
Jeff kelly there are so many incredible canadian titles that its sometimes hard to know where to start. The bestseller that coined the term the 100mile diet and is widely credited as a. Mackinnon, decided to embark on a one year journey, where their food could only come from reliably local sources, within a 100 mile circle around their apartment in vancouver, canada. Now in paperback, a national bestselling cross between peter mayles a year in provence and eric schlossers fast food nation, this book has struck a deeper. Home of the 100mile diet did you know that the concept of a 100mile diet originated in vancouver, bc, canada. The 100 mile diet wont solve all the worlds food problems, but it can be a great challenge that any one person can partake in for a length of time.
Is the 100 mile diet one that is realistic for your average person leading a busy life. And the 100mile diet much as it promotes local foods doesnt truly reflect the global nature of canadian agriculture. The 100mile diet is a noble idea eat only foods produced within 100 miles of your home. Alisa smith, a vancouverbased freelance writer who has been nominated for a national magazine award, has been published in outside, explore, canadian geographic, readers digest, utne, and many other periodicals.
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. What started out as an experiment has grown into a worldwide movement in local eating. Its a topic that fascinates my nutritionally minded, healthnut brain, and inspires me to reevaluate much of what i am buying. In 2005 they undertook an eating experiment with the goal of only consuming locally grown foods that were grown, produced and processed within a 100mile radius of their home. Zach shares his journey and what he learned from a dietary perspective. Its based upon a 2007 canadian book by alisa smith and j. Written by two journalist this book is full of fascinating facts and history woven into the story of a young couple trying to do something big. It was a dinner that transcended the delicate freshness of the fish, the earthy goodness of the spuds that had sopped up the. Call me naive, but i never knew that flour would be struck from our 100mile diet. The 100mile diet is a great way to learn about your local farming community, get healthier, and choose a sustainable way of eating. James mackinnon and alisa smith revolutionized the concept of the 100mile diet. Followers of the diet often describe themselves as locavores, because they eat locally produced food. The concept of the 100mile diet started to spread in 2005 when pioneers james mackinnon and alisa smith decided to eat foods produced within 100 miles of their vancouver home, which is surrounded by mountains, a valley and water. We take a lot for granted when we use rice, sugar, olive oil and lemons, for example.
The 100mile diet is a pathway home for anybody, anywhere. The remarkable, amusing and inspiring adventures of a canadian c. 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 100mile radius. A news report about a group of students at mcgill university in montreal attempting the 100 mile diet. The remarkable, amusing and inspiring adventures of a canadian couple who make a yearlong attempt to eat foods grown and produced within a 100mile. How ultrarunner zach bitter thrives on a lowcarb diet.
The 100mile diet began as a way to reduce dependence on the fossil fuels sucked up by the conventional food system, which sees food travel an. The canadian book site 49 th shelf has started a campaign titled read local. As part of the websites launch, bruder and her crew, including wilson, have set up an interactive map on the site, the 100mile book diet, to help readers make choices based on geographical. In the process they did much more, attracting a worldwide audience and making a bold political statement. Ive been thinking about the whole eating local thing since i read barbara kingslovers book animal, vegetable, miracle. Mackinnon, alisa smith and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at.
Alisa and james set themselves a high challenge to discover what the real issues with local food sourcing were. A year of local eating, plenty is the first hand tale of two city dwellers who attempt and ultimately succeed to eat only food produced within a 100 mile radius of their home in vancouver, british columbia. When he first started paying attention to sleep and diet in. They know there are certain staples and favourites theyll have to. Mackinnon document their experience consuming only food that came from within a 100mile radius of their home. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book, the 100mile diet. The 100 mile diet is a term used in american food activism to describe a diet which consists entirely of foods grown and raised within 100 miles 161 kilometers of the dinner table. One man, one woman, and a raucous year of eating locally. A year of local eating as it is titled in canada, is nothing like barbara kingsolvers animal, vegetable or miracle. Cooking and eating from americas farmers markets the 100mile diet is. During their one entire year of eating locally, the two allowed themselves to eat nonlocal food when they would find themselves on a business trip, at a friends house. Armed with this knowledge and a desire to respond in a responsible way, the authors, alisa smith and j. The 100mile diet struck a deeper chord than anyone could have predicted, attracting media and grassroots interest that spanned the globe. It is not quite as serious as eating a hyperlocavore, zeromile diet, but it is a great step towards a more sustainable lifestyle and will dramatically lower your carbon footprint.
Plus, the diet can be expensive and choices are limited to seasonal offerings. The 100 mile diet you might recognize this title because this is the book that inspired the tv show the 100 mile challenge. The idea was conceived by a couple, both authors, who decided to go cold turkey from trucked or flownin foods for one year and eat nothing but foods grown or produced within a 100mile radius of. Foods4betterhealth reports on the benefits of the 100mile. A year of local eating, and actually stayed up late a couple of nights to keep reading. A new yorker tries the 100mile diet the new york times. She found that buying local often is easier said than done.
Alisa smith and james mackinnon chew the fat on their 100. Boston, ma prweb september, 20, a new food and nutrition web site that believes that healthy eating is the key to living a long and healthy life, is reporting on a new book called the 100mile diet. The 100mile diet book contained an explanation of what james and alisa termed social life clause. Life living on the 100mile diet eating a truly local diet for a year poses some tricky questions. The diet consists of eating only food that has been grown, produced and packed within a 100 mile radius of your dinner table. The couple devoted themselves to 12 months of eating only foods that came from within a 100mile radius of their vancouver apartment, an experiment in local eating that became a media phenomenon culminating in their book the 100mile diet. This inspiring and enlightening book will give you plenty to chew on. Heres how he makes an ultralowcarb diet workand how you. This article was published in the waterloo region record on october 30, 2009. The 100mile book diet, which urges readers to take on books that are set within 100 miles of their homes.
Random house will be publishing their 100mile diet book in canada. A year of local eating as it is titled in canada, is nothing like barbara kingsolvers animal, vegetable or. They decide to eat only food grown in a 100mile radius of their vancouver home for one year. With james mackinnon, alisa smith, noel johansen, cassie clark vernon. A year after their experiment was over, they published a book, the 100mile diet, chronicling their adventure and struggles. Please sign in or sign up in order to add a book to the map. For zach bitter, who can travel ultramarathon distances faster than pretty much any other american, carbcutting is a way of life. The katimavik 100mile diet challenge adventures in. That was the question asked by writer susan cosier, a new yorker who tried the 100mile diet and wrote about it in last months ethe environmental magazine. For more information on finding locally produced food visit the web site. For more information on finding locally produced food visit. I had no idea the average food miles food from the field to the table was 1,500 miles. This method of eating relies solely on consuming those foods that are grown or produced within a 100mile radius of ones own home, which they see as a healthier and more sustainable way of life.