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Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon are bestselling authors of the book Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally (a.k.a. The 100-Mile Diet). Plenty recounts "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."
Plenty tells "a compelling, relevant story without preaching or darkening our minds with guilt." – The Vancouver Sun
"A funny, warm, and seductive account of how we might live better — better for the earth, better for the community, better for our bellies!" – Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy: the Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
"Eating locally isn't just a fad like the various diets advertised on late-night TV — it may be one of the most important ways we save ourselves and the planet." – Dr. David Suzuki
Alisa Smith is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in Reader's Digest, Outside, Utne Reader and many other publications. J.B. MacKinnon is the author of the acclaimed Dead Man in Paradise, which won the 2006 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Nonfiction. He has won three national magazine awards as a freelance writer, and is a former senior editor at Adbusters.
Last updated 15 August 2007