locavore

Meaning

Noun

• One who tries to eat only locally grown foods.

Origin

• local + -vore. Coined by Jen Maiser, Jessica Prentice, Sage Van Wing, and DeDe Sampson, co-founders of the web site.{{cite-web
• |last=Zimmer
• |first=Benjamin
• |date=2007-11-13
• |url=http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005109.html
• |title=Locavore vs. localvore: the coiner speaks
• |work=Language Log
• |accessdate=2007-11-13
• {{cite-web
• |publisher=Oxford University Press USA
• |date=2007-11-12
• |url=http://blog.oup.com/2007/11/locavore/
• |work=Oxford Word Of The Year
• |title=Locavore
• |accessdate=2008-11-19