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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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      Cochon 555 – 5 Chefs, 5 Pigs, 5 Winemakers

      Chefs and winemakers can be a rough and tumble crowd.  Throw butchers into the mix and watch out.  Then there are chefs who also butcher.  Time to run the other way.  This spring my friend, Jo Stougaard (of My Last Bite), and I attended ‘Cochon 555 – 5 Chefs, 5 Pigs, 5 Winemakers’ in the [...]

      Interview with Chefs John Stewart & Duskie Estes

      Chefs John Stewart and Duskie Estes are a husband and wife cooking team who own two restaurants in Sonoma County: Zazu Restaurant and Farm just outside Santa Rosa, California, and Bovolo Restaurant on the square in Healdsburg, California.  They are cooks who embrace a local, sustainable, ultra-fresh, from-the-garden cooking style wholeheartedly and without fail.  Not [...]

      25th Annual Chefs’ Holidays at The Ahwahnee

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      Chef Suzanne Goin of Lucques, A.O.C. and Tavern at her cooking demo at the ‘Chefs’ Holidays at the Ahwahnee’ in Yosemite.
      Uhm, let’s see: three days of celebrity chefs cooking amazing food at The Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite in the middle of winter?! Okay, I’m in. I’ll splurge to watch Suzanne Goin of [...]

      Guest Blog: My Mother, Dawn Goodman – My Food History

      My great-grandparents, Ora and Rolla Goodman, at a family barbecue in Waller Park in Santa Maria, California.
      Introduction – My Life in Food
      I have very fond food memories from my childhood growing up on the Central Coast of California during the 60s and 70s. I grew up in the near-coastal town of San Luis Obispo. [...]

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      My great-grandparents, Ora and Rolla Goodman, Orcutt, California
      One of my favorite family stories is about how my great-grandmother, Ora Goodman – the inspiration for this blog – fed the hobos on Sundays. Sunday was pancake day at my great-grandmother’s house. Every Sunday Gramma Ora made pancakes for the family, and always made extras for the [...]