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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Plenty to think about Now that I've actually read the book ...	Kate Sheppard	25 Apr 2007	Gristmill
When I caught up with 100-mile dieters Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon a few weeks ago, they were just kicking off their book tour with a stop in Toronto, and I hadn't even had a chance to read Plenty, in which they recount a year of local eating. Sure, I had the basic info -- one man, one woman, a year of eating only food grown within 100-mile radius of their Vancouver, B.C. home. They'd kept up a blog on their website, 100milediet.org, posted regular dispatches o ...
Topics: food, local food, Vancouver (all these topics)

Cloves to Home Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon chew the fat on their 100-mile diet	Kate Sheppard	24 Apr 2007	Main Dish
Two years ago, Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon set out to see if it was still possible, in these hyper-globalized times, to live off food grown in your own 'hood. The pair made a pact to dine on dishes culled from within a 100-mile radius of their Vancouver, B.C., home for an entire year. Their personal experiment quickly evolved into a movement, and now Smith, a freelance journalist w ...
Topics: books, food, green living, interview, local food, Vancouver (all these topics)

100-mile diet website and book Check 'em out.	Chris Schults	26 Apr 2006	Gristmill
Last year, I tried to keep up with Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon and their campaign to follow a 100-mile diet. I failed, by only blogging about parts one through five. Since then, parts six through eleven have been published, which can now all be found on the 100-mile diet website:On the first day of spring 2005, Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon made a commitment to live for a full year on food and drink drawn from within 100 miles of their home in Vancouver, British C ...
Topics: books, food, local food, Vancouver, websites (all these topics)

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