Hosts, guides, and cheerleaders, James and Alisa are two of the most prominent figures of the "locavore" movement in Canada and around the world. Celebrated authors of the bestseller The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating, which won the BC Book Prize for non-fiction in 2008, James and Alisa are determined to effect change – one person at a time.
Throughout The 100 Mile Challenge, James and Alisa provide the families with expert information, tips, encouragement, corrections, and a series of challenges. The pair guides the 100-milers through the deep, personal transformations they will undergo in this "shared yet individual" experience.
In addition to The 100-Mile Diet, James's other books include I Live Here (Pantheon Books, 2008) and Dead Man in Paradise (Douglas & McIntyre, 2005), which won The Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction. As a journalist, James has earned four National Magazine Awards and is a senior contributing editor to Explore magazine. After a year on the 100-mile diet, he will never again eat store-bought sauerkraut.
Alisa has been invited to speak in communities around North America to spread the word about the importance of local food. As a freelance writer, she has been published in Outside, Reader's Digest, Utne, Explore, Canadian Geographic and many other publications, and has received National Magazine Awards nominations for her work.
James and Alisa live in Vancouver, BC.
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