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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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      Artisanal L.A.

      “Living life locally” is a catchphrase for this blog.  100 miles is a theme I try to follow.  Regular readers know very well that I often venture way beyond 100 miles but the idea of “local” is still of paramount importance to me and what I write about.  This is why I’m such a huge [...]

      Out of the Box Collective

      “Eat The Love”.   The very apt slogan for the new food delivery company Out of the Box Collective.  The OBC promotional flier also includes:  “Local”.  “Sustainable”. “Home Delivered”.   All good words in my world.  Out of the Box Collective is exactly those things.  They gather food staples that are local and sustainable, put them into [...]

      CSA: Farm Fresh To You

      Community-supported agriculture, or CSA.  It has such a nice ring to it.  I just started back to one.  So far I’ve received one delivery from Farm Fresh To You.  The last time I tried a CSA it was too much food.  [Read about it here.]  But then without one I just don’t cook (and eat) [...]

      24 Hours of Food! ~ Part 1: Artisanal L.A.

      Last weekend was a whirlwind 24 hours of food.  Oh, yes, there was some wine (for Robert) thrown into the mix as well.  Saturday I spent the day at Artisanal L.A. at the Cooper Building in downtown Los Angeles, and Sunday Robert and I went out to Saddlerock Ranch in Malibu for Los Angeles Magazine’s [...]

      Urban Farmers ~ Ted & Nicole

      (Sub) Urban farmers.  DIY butchering.  Beehives on city rooftops.  Herd shares.  Farm-direct pork and beef.  Homemade, artisan everything.   There has been an explosion of interest in self-sourcing the food we eat.  Why not buy half a pig?  Have backyard chickens?  Grow our own vegetables?  It’s a far cry better than buying our food cut [...]