2007 Word of the Year

The Word of the Year in 2007 is locavore. Never heard of it? “Locavore” was coined two years ago by four women in San Francisco who proposed that local residents should try to eat only food grown or produced within a 100-mile radius. Other regional movements have emerged since then, though some groups refer to themselves as “localvores” rather than “locavores.” There are echoes of Christian Ecology’s LOAF principle.