A review by jescatling
Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally by J.B. MacKinnon, Alisa Smith

4.0

I really liked this book about a couple who decide not to eat anything unless it comes from within 100 miles from where they live. Granted they live in Vancouver, which makes it sound a lot easier to do than say, Chicago, but they do discover certain staples aren't attainable to them anymore, like wheat. Finding wheat in the Pacific Northwest becomes the ultimate Holy Grail. The experiment itself sounds a little pretentious, but the authors don't shy away from the downsides of local eating...they fight while canning tomatoes, lose too much weight from a lack of carbs, and drink a lot of wine from a local winery. In the end, their descriptions of delicious local produce makes me want to shop at farmer's markets a lot more.