At the beginning of "Plenty: One Man, One Woman and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally," an impromptu dinner party in the Alaskan wilderness prompts the authors to take on the 100-mile diet challenge for one year. It was a dinner party - as authors Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon soon found out - ...

I'm the first to admit that the 100-mile diet hasn't been much of a diet at all. I've indulged in glass upon glass of milk, slathered on the butter, poured on the honey, and stuffed myself full of peaches, corn and potatoes. Still something was missing. I have since given up pining for coffee ...

I started out with such good intentions. This past weekend, I flew back home to a cousin's wedding in Pennsylvania. For some followers of the 100-mile diet, traveling can be a free pass to eating beyond the confines of food hunted and gathered within a two-hour drive. However, I wasn't going to ...

The day started with the purchase of an innocent-looking flat of tomatoes at Saturday's Lawrence Farmers' Market. And ended with me standing on a stool at 9:30 p.m. kneading dough into small elastic piles of pasta.In between there was me buying four pounds of apples, going on a scavenger hunt ...

Got Milk?Yesterday afternoon, I pulled out an ice-cold, honest-to-goodness glass bottle of milk from my refrigerator.It was something I hadn't done since I was ten years old. And, I am not exaggerating when I say it was the best glass of milk I have ever had.Sometime between heading off to ...

The thing about a diet (and I should know because I have been on more than a few) is when you first start one, you never think about all the food you can have. Instead, my mind is driven - obsessively so - to what is forbidden. I mean Monday wasn't so bad. For breakfast, I had whole-wheat toast ...