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I should have known Austin would be first 😁. Sobering but important news about the event to dwarf global warming. Thanks as ever John and congrats on doing what you can for all of us, as usual. 🕊️🌱🌅

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For you and Jenny the OED word of the day: 😇. Your word for Thursday 17th November is: locavore, n.

locavore, n.

[‘A person whose diet consists only or principally of locally grown or produced food; frequently attributive.’]

Pronunciation: Brit. /ˈləʊkəvɔː/, U.S. /ˈloʊkəˌvɔr/

Forms: also with capital initial.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: local adj., -ivore comb. form.

Etymology: < loca- (in local adj.) + -vore (in -ivore comb. form).

Coined by Jessica Prentice in 2005 as the name for an informal group of which she was a founding member, committed to supporting local and sustainable food systems in the San Francisco area (see quot. 20051). She and the other members of the group set themselves the challenge of eating only foods grown or harvested within a 100 mile radius of San Francisco for an entire month. The name was apparently coined specifically for the newspaper article from which quot. 20051 is taken.

A person whose diet consists only or principally of locally grown or produced food; frequently attributive.

2005 San Francisco Chron. 1 June f1/4 Calling themselves the Locavores, the women..are passionate about eating locally and have devised a way to show others how to do that, too.

2005 News-Courier (Athens, Alabama) 11 Aug. 9a/5 Food in the coming years will cost more... And that's one of the driving factors behind the Locavore movement.

2007 B. Kingsolver Animal, Veg., Miracle(2008) xvii. 286 We needed fellow locavores to add clout to our quest.

2014 Sydney Morning Herald(Nexis) 26 Apr. (Travel section) 12 Moss is a dedicated locavore and a chef who likes to get his hands dirty.

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