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For one year, they would only consume food that came from within a 100-mile radius of their Vancouver apartment. The 100-Mile Diet was born. \u003cbr\u003eThe couple s discoveries sometimes shook their resolve. It would be a year without sugar, Cheerios, olive oil, rice, Pizza Pops, beer, and much, much more. Yet local eating has turned out to be a life lesson in pleasures that are always close at hand. They met the revolutionary farmers and modern-day hunter-gatherers who are changing the way we think about food. They got personal with issues ranging from global economics to biodiversity. They called on the wisdom of grandmothers, and immersed themselves in the seasons. They discovered a host of new flavours, from gooseberry wine to sunchokes to turnip sandwiches, foods that they never would have guessed were on their doorstep. \u003cbr\u003eThe 100-Mile Diet struck a deeper chord than anyone could have predicted, attracting media and grassroots interest that spanned the globe. The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating tells the full story, from the insights to the kitchen disasters, as the authors transform from megamart shoppers to self-sufficient urban pioneers. The 100-Mile Diet is a pathway home for anybody, anywhere. \u003cbr\u003eCall me naive, but I never knew that flour would be struck from our 100-Mile Diet. Wheat products are just so ubiquitous, the staff of life, that I had hazily imagined the stuff must be grown everywhere. But of course: I had never seen a field of wheat anywhere close to Vancouver, and my mental images of late-afternoon light falling on golden fields of grain were all from my childhood on the Canadian prairies. What I was able to find was Anita s Organic Grain \u0026amp; Flour Mill, about 60 miles up the Fraser River valley. I called, and learned that Anita s nearest grain suppliers were at least 800 miles away by road. She sounded sorry for me. 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A romantic and charming figure, Lena had tried to forget him by resuming her linguistic studies, which led to her recruitment as a Navy code-breaker intercepting Japanese messages during World War II.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e But can Lena keep her own secrets? Threatening notes and the appearance of an old diary that recalls her gangster days are poised to upset her new life.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Whom can she really trust? Is there a spy among the code-breakers? And who is it that wants her dead?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"Alisa Smith's novel \u003ci\u003eSpeakeasy\u003c\/i\u003e, set in the thirties and forties, is written with great authority. 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