The past year saw the popularization of a trend in using locally grown ingredients, taking advantage of seasonally available foodstuffs that can be bought and prepared without the need for extra preservatives.
The “locavore” movement encourages consumers to buy from farmers’ markets or even to grow or pick their own food, arguing that fresh, local products are more nutritious and taste better. Locavores also shun supermarket offerings as an environmentally friendly measure, since shipping food over long distances often requires more fuel for transportation.
Runners-up:
aging in place
bacn
cloudware
colony collapse disorder
cougar
MRAP vehicle
mumblecore
previvor
social graph
tase (or taze)
upcycling
In related language news, Merriam Webster announced that w00t, a hybrid of letters and numbers used by gamers as an exclamation of happiness or triumph, topped all other terms in the Springfield-based dictionary publisher's online poll for the word that best sums up 2007.
Some also-rans in the 2007 list: the use of ''facebook'' as a verb to signify using the Web site by that name; and ''blamestorm,'' a meeting in which mistakes are aired, fingers are pointed and much discomfort is had by all.
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