Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally is another book that isn't quite a cookbook. However, it contains a handful of recipes, describes in detail the process of freezing corn and canning tomatoes and is, on a very basic level, a book about food, cooking and nourishing the human body and mind. Written by Alisa Smith and J. B. MacKinnon (he's referred to as James throughout the book), it documents the year they spent only eating foods that were grown/raised/produced within a 100 miles of their home (they started a movement, 100 mile and local eating challenges are quite common these days). The chapters alternate narrative perspective, so that James tells half the story and Alisa tells the balance. Divided by month, each chapter begins with a recipe that is seasonally appropriate and local to their home in Vancouver, BC.
If you are interested in incorporating more local, seasonal foods into your diet, this is an interesting read.
A fraking amazing Battlestar Galactica cake
Iced Tea 101
Pierogies + cheese + onions + kraut = Parmageddon!
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5-06-2008 @ 6:15PM
Gillian said...
I loved this book - it's similar to Barbara Kingsolver's "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" but a little less heavy-handed, and more accessible for the likes of us who don't have land on which to raise turkeys.
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5-07-2008 @ 3:25AM
Ella said...
Last time my friend recommended this, the cheapest copy on Amazon was $20! So while I'm glad to see it has dropped. But I find it at a dealsite for $11:
http://www.dealstudio.com/searchdeals.php?deal_id=101461&ru=279
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