An associate editor at Reason breaks out the haughty pen of Ivory Tower sense and applies it to local writers’ Alisa Smith and J.B MacKinnon’s much celebrated 100 Mile Diet book, Plenty…It’s not a bad review as much as it is an entertaining one.
“There’s a lot of driving around the countryside, some nice dinners with friends, a cute garden plot that doesn’t seem to need much tending, a little family trouble, many discussions about real estate, and an extremely large amount of murky, non-specific relationship tension. They try to make cheese which winds up—get this!—too salty. Crazy! They squabble over nothing while canning tomatoes and freezing corn. Wild! At the end of the winter, potatoes in a cupboard sprout and crack open the cabinet door. Whew! Raucous!”
Read the full editorial here.
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That is hilarious.
Remember five years ago when every second book published was a one word titled missive on how one unique substance managed to change all world history while giving us shiny hair and sweet breath at the same time? SALT! CORNDOGS! THE IRISH! 3 RING BINDERS!
This is the exact same 2007 equivalent. Today Bill Good had some loony chick on trying to live a year without plastic. A year without… CAFFEINE! PETROLEUM DISTILATES! PORNOGRAPHY! PRE-RECORDED MUSIC! BABY ARUGULA! GAP KHAKIS!
It’s only May and I’m already looking forward to 2008 and whatever retarded publishing trend will be the rage.
Ironically, the title shown on this website is the US edition. The Canadian edition is simply called “The 100 Mile Diet”. This is one book I am looking forward to purchasing.
Eating Locally strikes again…..
Perhaps the reviews will be better…
Barbara Kingsolver will talk about her book “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life” (HarperCollins, 2007), which discusses her family’s year of eating only food grown locally, in Virginia.