LocaVore
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Name Games: What Does “Local Food” Really Mean?
In 2007, the New Oxford American Dictionary named “locavore” its Word of the Year. Farmers’ markets were proliferating nationwide, tripling in just 15 years. Restaurants began emulating farm-to-table trailblazers like Chez Panisse. Then came surprise bestselling books like The Omnivore’s Dilemma and films like Food, Inc. as millions reconsidered dinner’s long and convoluted journey to…
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Locavore: Confessions of a Germophile
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday, hands down. No presents to fret over, no costumes with weird facepaint to wash off, no fights over how many jelly beans a rational human should consume in one sitting. Just family. And food. And my love affair with the morning-after Thanksgiving sandwich. I go all the way with mine.…
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Confessions of a Germophile
Photos by Tammy Horton I confess, dear reader, that deep in the middle of this past wet gray January, constantly clad in galoshes and a rain jacket that never quite dried out, I dreamed a lot about Mexico. Hot dry beaches and warm water, cobbled streets and al pastor tacos, all called deeply to my…