Plenty: Eating Locally on the 100-Mile Diet

Author: Alisa Smith
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 t….Read More
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Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating
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