PASSIONATE RATIONS

Each year, the Oxford American Dictionary chooses a word of the year.   Typically, they are words you won’t yet find in your reference books.  Language is living, always evolving.  As our world makes its rapid-fire changes, we need new descriptors.  I thought I’d mention this year’s, since it’s food related and thought provoking.

Locavore: someone who endeavors to eat only locally-produced foods.

The word was coined in 2005 by a group of four women in San Francisco who challenged Bay Area residents to eat only food that was grown within a 100-mile radius, calling themselves “locavores.”   A new movement was borne.

As if we didn’t have enough to think about.

The theory is that, by sticking to locally-grown, you support your local economy and farmers, have better quality assurance, and can be certain of your foods’ origins.

Hmmmm.  Perhaps there’s a New Year’s resolution in that….

Happy New Year!