locavore

Etymology

From loca(l) + -vore. Coined by Jen Maiser, Jessica Prentice, Sage Van Wing, and DeDe Sampson, co-founders of the “Locavores” web site in 2005.

locavore means one who tries to eat only locally grown foods. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

Why this word is great

LOCAVORE — [Noun] One who deliberately chooses to eat only food grown or produced within their immediate geographic region. A modern coinage from English 'local' and the combining form '-vore' (from Latin -vorus, from vorare, "to devour"), patterned after words like 'carnivore'; coined in 2005 by Jessica Prentice and others. Unlike "vegetarian," which defines by biological exclusion, or "foodie," which suggests a hedonistic pursuit of novelty, the locavore is defined by a conscious, ethical contraction of the culinary map. It is the gritty soil on a just-pulled carrot, the palpable warmth of an egg held minutes after being laid, and the faint, sweet scent of a peach that traveled ten miles, not ten thousand—a quiet rebellion against the anonymous, refrigerated global supply chain, asserting that true nourishment has an address.

noun

One who tries to eat only locally grown foods.“So I do think that there is a wonderful opportunity for us to find a carbon-neutral energy source where it is not only a beneficial model environmentally but we are sort of becoming forest and energy locavores, if you will, and so that is what we are trying to establish through this idea of a community wood energy program where we would be using, you know, town forests to actually supply town ener”