The 100-mile diet is a way for you to support your local farmers that are located within a 100-mile radius from where you live. The 100 mile diet started in 2005, when Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon started an experiment on eating local. The discovered that foods grown and produced locally tasted better and fresher. What started out as a simple experiment turned out to inspire millions of people to support their local farmers. After this more and more farmers' markets and neighbourhood markets began to appear. Furthermore, supermarkets started labelling food according to where it was grown or produced.
The fruits of the harvest are readily available and you can readily buy produce that has been grown within a 100-mile radius. As fall passes and winter emerges, this will become more difficult to do and eating daily from within a 100 is difficult at best.
However, even if you just set aside one day a week or a month to try this diet, it would give you a greater insight into what food is available within a 100 mile radius of your home. It could be a voyage of discovery, who knows what culinary delights await you.
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Smith and MacKinnon made a blog to document their "100-mile" journey from Easter to Thanksgiving (roughly 6 months). Browse a list of posts from their blog here.
***According to my understanding of this diet, it applies only to fresh food - vegetables, fruit, and meat and dairy products. It doesn't cover processed food (things in a can, box, frozen or packaged). If you find out something different, write it with your comment.
After reading and learning more about the 100-mile diet, write a comment on this blog, stating your opinion about it. Would you like to try it? What would be easy? What would be difficult? Would this work in Japan and why/why not? Write good English and check what you wrote before you post it.
***According to my understanding of this diet, it applies only to fresh food - vegetables, fruit, and meat and dairy products. It doesn't cover processed food (things in a can, box, frozen or packaged). If you find out something different, write it with your comment.
Deadline for the comment: Friday November 18 at 17:00. IMPORTANT CHANGE! PLEASE READ!
Dear Class,
As I got to know, it is impossible to put your comments on the 100-mile page, so please write your comments on the "Your comments for the 100-mile diet HW" post on the main Frank Gehry HW page. You can find it HERE. Remember that the deadline is November 18th (Friday). You only have to write your comment - you do not need to comment on the others' comments - too complicated!
If you have questions, please let me know.
This was the first time for me to make something called a "page," which is different from a "post," so please excuse me as I learn the system. Thanks.
As I got to know, it is impossible to put your comments on the 100-mile page, so please write your comments on the "Your comments for the 100-mile diet HW" post on the main Frank Gehry HW page. You can find it HERE. Remember that the deadline is November 18th (Friday). You only have to write your comment - you do not need to comment on the others' comments - too complicated!
If you have questions, please let me know.
This was the first time for me to make something called a "page," which is different from a "post," so please excuse me as I learn the system. Thanks.
