Andrew's review
Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally
by Alisa Smith, J.B. Mackinnon
Andrew's review
Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally by Alisa Smith, J.B. Mackinnon
Andrew's review
rating:
recommended for: anyone interested in eating locally
This book is about a couple of 20-somethings that decide to only eat food created within a 100 mile radius of where they live in Vancouver BC. They end up with quite a following and founded the "100 mile diet" based on the concept.
I liked the premise of "eating locally" and was expecting interesting culinary adventures of discovering lesser known food opportunities. There was certainly some of that in this book (their search for wheat was especially interesting) but not nearly as much as I expected.
Overall this book read more like a diary of their lives during the year it covers...sometimes written from his perspective, sometimes from hers. There is lots of details of their social lives and relationship which I thought took away from the overall effect of the book.
This book felt a lot like a blog that got turned into a book - much like Julie and Julia last year. Certainly not a terrible book, but far from the culinary writing you expect from the gr...more
I liked the premise of "eating locally" and was expecting interesting culinary adventures of discovering lesser known food opportunities. There was certainly some of that in this book (their search for wheat was especially interesting) but not nearly as much as I expected.
Overall this book read more like a diary of their lives during the year it covers...sometimes written from his perspective, sometimes from hers. There is lots of details of their social lives and relationship which I thought took away from the overall effect of the book.
This book felt a lot like a blog that got turned into a book - much like Julie and Julia last year. Certainly not a terrible book, but far from the culinary writing you expect from the gr...more
