Locavores
A locavore is someone who exclusively or primarily eats foods from their local or regional foodshed. Or a person whose diet consists only or principally of locally grown or produced food.
Locavore (sometimes expressed as locaLvore) is a term that is widely used to describe people who are committed to eating locally grown for reasons ranging from better nutrition to supporting local farms and businesses to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. But where did the word come from and how did it become part of our everyday language.
The word locavore was formed by combining local with the suffix vore, which come from the latin word vorare, meaning to devour. Vore is commonly used form nouns: omnivore, carnivore, herbivore, insectivore and so on that describe an animal's diet.
How did locavore become popular ?
Jessica Prentice, an American chef and founder member in Berkeley, CA of a Community Supported kitchen (CSK) - a CSK reunites chefs' and consumers' around only local products - first used the word locavore in 2005: the term was quickly embraced and adopted. Therefore the New Oxford English dictionary chose locavore as its 2007 Word of the year.
As Prentice wrote: "Once upon a time, all human beings were locavores, and everything we ate was a gift of the Earth" That affirmation can be related to the myth of the noble savage as describes by Rousseau.
Locavore (sometimes expressed as locaLvore) is a term that is widely used to describe people who are committed to eating locally grown for reasons ranging from better nutrition to supporting local farms and businesses to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. But where did the word come from and how did it become part of our everyday language.
The word locavore was formed by combining local with the suffix vore, which come from the latin word vorare, meaning to devour. Vore is commonly used form nouns: omnivore, carnivore, herbivore, insectivore and so on that describe an animal's diet.
How did locavore become popular ?
Jessica Prentice, an American chef and founder member in Berkeley, CA of a Community Supported kitchen (CSK) - a CSK reunites chefs' and consumers' around only local products - first used the word locavore in 2005: the term was quickly embraced and adopted. Therefore the New Oxford English dictionary chose locavore as its 2007 Word of the year.
As Prentice wrote: "Once upon a time, all human beings were locavores, and everything we ate was a gift of the Earth" That affirmation can be related to the myth of the noble savage as describes by Rousseau.
