PLENTY: ONE MAN, ONE WOMAN, AND A RAUCOUS YEAR OF EATING LOCALLY

Book ID/图书代码： 02000007B15183

English Summary/英文概要： Like many great adventures, the 100-mile diet began with a memorable feast. Stranded in their off-the-grid summer cottage in the Canadian wilderness with unexpected guests, Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon turned to the land around them. They caught a trout, picked mushrooms, and mulled apples from an abandoned orchard with rose hips in wine. The meal was truly satisfying; every ingredient had a story, a direct line they could trace from the soil to their forks. The experience raised a question: Was it possible to eat this way in their everyday lives?

Back in the city, they began to research the origins of the items that stocked the shelves of their local supermarket. They were shocked to discover that a typical ingredient in a North American meal travels roughly the distance between Boulder, Colorado, and New York City before it reaches the plate. Like so many people, Smith and MacKinnon were trying to live more lightly on the planet; meanwhile, their “SUV diet” was producing greenhouse gases and smog at an unparalleled rate. So they decided on an experiment: For one year they would eat only food produced within 100 miles of their Vancouver home.

It wouldn’t be easy. Stepping outside the industrial food system, Smith and MacKinnon found themselves relying on World War II–era cookbooks and maverick farmers who refused to play by the rules of a global economy. What began as a struggle slowly transformed into one of the deepest pleasures of their lives. For the first time they felt connected to the people and the places that sustain them.

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.

The authors’ food-focused experiment questions globalization, monoculture, the oil economy, environmental collapse, and the tattering threads of community. Thought-provoking and inspiring, Plenty offers more than a way of eating. In the end, it’s a new way of looking at the world.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 有一對加拿大夫妻愛莉莎和詹姆士(Alisa Smith和James B. MacKinnon)，他們發現每天吃的食物和食材，從離開土地到進入商店，平均都遊歷至少1500英哩的路。在一次渡假中他們嘗過在地食材後，發現食物真正的美味，他們決定共同承諾，連續一年只食用公寓方圓100英哩以內的食物，不買需輾轉運送的食材，不買加工食品；拒絕成為商業化的食品工業鍊中的一部份。
剛開始他們覺得自己似乎過著像二次大戰前自給自足的生活，但漸漸地，他們展開100英哩的食物地圖，從思考自己周圍的當地食材和農作物進而開始親手栽種蔬菜和香料。在這過程中，他們不知不覺愈吃愈健康，生活愈來愈快樂，他們學會如何與四季搭配生活，他們逐一應驗老祖母的智慧。
最後，他們學會珍惜自然界生生不息的力量與反思人類因經濟體系對自然界所造成的破壞。這是一本非常創舉，有趣與令人驚訝的新生活故事。

Awards/获奖情况：This very human and often humorous adventure about two people eating food grown within a short distance of their home is surprising, delightful, and even shocking. If you’ve only talked about eating locally but never given yourself definitions—especially strict ones—to follow, I assure you that your farmers’ market will never again look the same. Nothing you eat will look the same! This inspiring and enlightening book will give you plenty to chew on.” ---Deborah Madison, author of Local Flavors: Cooking and Eating from America’s Farmers’ Markets

“Plenty posits a brilliant, improbable, and finally deliciously noble notion of connecting to the world by striving first to understand what’s underfoot. Beautifully written and lovingly paced, it is at once a lonely and uplifting tale of deep respect between two people, their community, and our earth. Plenty will change your life even if you never could or would try this at home.”---Danny Meyer, author of Setting the Table

“A funny, warm, and seductive account of how we might live better—better for this earth, better for the community, better for our bellies!” ---Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future

“Engaging, thoughtful…packed with natural, historical and personal detail.”---Liesel Schillinger, The New York Times

“Succeeds because Smith and MacKinnon don’t give a ____about being normal. Locavorism isn’t normal—that’s the point—and they fly their freak flag with bemused pride, giving themselves over to the mania that infects the newly converted….One imagines Kingsolver at home on her sturdy homestead shaking her head and clucking at those ‘trendy’ kids, but they’re the ones I’d rather have dinner with.”---Martha Bayne, Chicago Reader

About the Author/作者介绍： Alisa Smith, a Vancouver-based freelance writer who has been nominated for a National Magazine Award, has been published in Outside, Explore, Canadian Geographic, Reader’s Digest, Utne, and many other periodicals. The books Way Out There and Liberalized feature her work.
J.B. MacKinnon is the award-winning author of Dead Man in Paradise and Plenty.

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