When you sit down to a meal, each item on your plate has typically traveled between 1,500 and 2,500 miles. Alisa Smith and J. B. MacKinnon chose to confront this unsettling statistic with an experiment: For one year, they would eat only locally grown and produced food. Their 100-mile diet made personal such critical issues as global warming, collapsing fish stocks, the loss of the family farms, and food safety. At the same time, they learned the simple joys of reconnecting with community and home ground Humorous, hearth-warming, challenging, and enlightening, Plenty will change the way you experience the world. For Smith and MacKinnon, the 100-mile diet became a journey whose destination was, simply, home. From the satisfaction of pulling their own crop of garlic out of the earth to pitched battles over canning tomatoes, Plenty is about eating locally and thinking globally. 6 X 8.5, 264 pages, hard cover. To order call toll free 866-596-9982