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語源

loca(l) +‎ -vore. Coined by Jen Maiser, Jessica Prentice, Sage Van Wing, and DeDe Sampson, co-founders of the “Locavores” web site in 2005.^[1][2]

名詞

locavore (複数形 locavores)

1. (cooking, neologism) One who tries to eat only locally grown foods. [from 2005]

   Synonym: localvore

   Antonym: distavore

   • 2007 March 12, U.S. Government Printing Office, quoting James Daley, 2007 Farm Bill Opportunities for Vermont and the Northeast: Hearing before the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, United States Senate, One Hundred Tenth Congress, First Session, →ISBN, Statement of James Daley, Campaign Director, Northern Forest Alliance, Stowe, Vermont, page 33:

     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 energy needs so that people can actually see the costs and the impacts of where their energy is coming from.

   • 2007, Brenda Berstler, Home Plate: The Culinary Road Trip of Cooperstown: A Guidebook for the Discerning Visitor, Savor New York, →ISBN, page 243:

     They are a locavore’s (someone who eats food produced within 100 miles of he lives) paradise.

   • 2007, Leslie Garrett, The Virtuous Consumer: Your Essential Shopping Guide for a Better, Kinder, Healthier World (かつ one our kids will thank us for!), New World Library, →ISBN, page 54:

     Become a Locavore
     Try to eat foods grown close to your home, which helps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transport as well as supporting your neighbors. […]

   • 2023 September 29, Molly Fitzpatrick, “He’s the Pawpaw King of Brooklyn. (What’s a Pawpaw?)”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN:

     Its mottled green skin conceals a creamy yellow pulp that tastes of banana and mango; locavore-minded chefs alchemize it into ice cream, beer, bread and tasting-menu fodder — that is, when it’s not simply eaten raw with a spoon.

派生語

• locavorism
• locavorous

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