Alisa Smith: The 100 Mile Diet - A Year of Local Eating

With declining oil and global warming a concern, why ship a vegetable 1,500 miles from farm to plate? To challenge this practice, Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon ate foods grown within 100 miles of home one year. They discovered community, old-fashioned skills and the best-tasting food of their lives. Alisa Smith is co-author of The 100 Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating (published in the U.S. as Plenty: One Man, One Woman and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally). Recorded August 12, 2007 at the Sixth Annual Illinois