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100-Mile Diet Books

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100-Mile Diet

This wildly successful series written by J.B. MacKinnon and Alisa Smith details their adventures eating only food produced within a 100-mile radius of their home. It originally appeared at thetyee.ca

To read more just click on the story links below.

Part 1 — Living on the 100-Mile Diet

Eating a truly local diet for a year poses some tricky questions.

Part 2 — Wanted: A Perfectly Local Chicken

For a truly sustainable breakfast, which comes first? The tofu or the egg?

Part 3 — A Local Eating Rhapsody

Why not try a 100-Mile Meal?

Part 4 — Why We Pay Too Little for Well Travelled Food

Charging the true cost of “food miles” could change the way people eat.

Part 5 — The 100-Mile Diet Goes North

Wish you were here.

Part 6 — In Praise of the Lowly Pink Salmon

The 100-Milers pursue guilt-free fish for the winter stockpile.

Part 7 — Getting Canned

The 100-Mile dieters stock up, and wish for a legion of grandmas.

Part 8 — Thanksgiving on the 100-Mile Diet

Friends in Vernon take to heart the ideals of local feasting.

Part 9 — With the Grain on the 100-Mile Diet

Stalking barley and wheat, some of it 9,000 years old.

Part 10 — The Incredible Expanding 100-Mile Diet

No, we’re not gaining weight. We’re gaining allies.

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