Oxford University Press has named the new term, which means “a person who endeavors to eat only locally produced food,” its 2007 word of the year. Still, consensus has not been reached on how the word is spelled — local or loca-vore, whether we’ll see it in next year’s dictionary and if it can be considered a strict dietary constraint.

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