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Welcome to 100 Miles, an exploration of sustaining life by going no further away than 100 miles to gather the things we need to live. This web log is my journal of food-based experiences, memories, thoughts, and recipes. I hope you enjoy reading it. To subscribe, so as not to miss each new edition, please enter your email address.

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      A Market Meet-Up with Michael McCarty

      A shopping and eating adventure with a world-renowned chef and restaurateur: Michael’s Market Meet-Ups — where friends, food and flavor come together.
      Chef Michael McCarty is hailed as a pioneer of the California Cuisine movement that began in the early 1980s.  He and a group of California chefs started sourcing [...]

      Honest Cooking

      No, not Honest Cooking, the new food news website I’m writing for but as in do I suck as a cook?  I think so all the time!  I really shouldn’t because I have both professional training and experience in restaurant kitchens.  I’ve also been cooking since I was in my late teens (37 years).  As [...]

      Review: Small-Batch Baking for Chocolate Lovers

      Small-Batch Baking for Chocolate Lovers: Recipes for Cookies, Cakes, Pie, Tarts, Muffins and Scones.  Debby Maugans.  Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press.  $21.99.  (340p)  ISBN: 978-0-312-61224-5
      The best things come in small packages.  In the case of “Small-Batch Baking for Chocolate Lovers,” the best chocolate things come in small packages.  Author Debby Maugans perfected the art of [...]

      Review: Southern My Way

      Southern My Way: Simple Recipes, Fresh Flavors.  Gena Knox.  Gena Knox Media.  $34.95.  (252p)  ISBN: 978-0-615-37440-6
      Modern Southern is a bit of an oxymoron.  Anything “Southern” tends to have old-fashioned built into it.  Gena Knox, however, embodies “modern Southern,” and her new cookbook “Southern My Way” echoes that.  I mean look at that cover photo.  Well-dressed, [...]

      Review: Grilled Cheese, Please!

      Grilled Cheese, Please! 50 Scrumptiously Cheesy Recipes.  Laura Werlin.  Andrews McMeel Publishing.  $16.99  (184p)  ISBN: 978-1-4494-0165-8
      April is National Grilled Cheese Month so highly appropriate for Laura Werlin’s newest book “Grilled Cheese, Please!”  Werlin has quite the cheese expert pedigree having written four previous books on the subject which have won James Beard, IACP and the [...]