How to Use locavore in a Sentence

locavore

noun
  • But back in Michigan, the locavore movement hadn’t quite caught on yet.
    — Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2020
  • Home canning is a skill that belongs in the repertoire of any natural cook, locavore, or wild-game chef.
    — The Editors, Outdoor Life, 21 Aug. 2019
  • The article punctured the myths at the core of the restaurant’s locavore allure.
    — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 2 June 2021
  • Did the city's locavore mentality — and farmers' markets — play a role?
    — Kathleen Renda, House Beautiful, 11 Sep. 2017
  • The locavore movement has gone global, with more restaurants basing their menus on the seasons and harvests of nearby farms.
    — Andrea Sachs, Washington Post, 15 July 2022
  • Here, food professionals and farmers weigh in on how to find the freshest fruits and become an accomplished locavore this spring.
    — Ariel Okin, Vogue, 21 Mar. 2018
  • All of our weapons and surgical equipment are a-hundred-per-cent locavore, barrel-aged, and urban-Zen.
    — Alex Baia, The New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2019
  • There are three restaurants, such as the locavore Philosophy and the lunchtime sushi joint Ambrosia.
    — Ann Abel, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Jan. 2020
  • For her, the word locavore meant relationships, and sharing those relationships with guests.
    — Rosecrans Baldwin, Travel + Leisure, 7 Sep. 2024
  • Alaskan locavores have been able to visit farmers markets all winter inside The Mall at Sears.
    — Donna Freedman, Anchorage Daily News, 2 May 2018
  • The Sanchez family curates the locavore-centric menu that includes the namesake tellines, tiny clams, which are tossed in slick aioli and eaten by hand.
    — Kimberley Lovato, National Geographic, 28 Mar. 2019
  • Nate and Ashley are inventive locavore chefs, creating new dishes so fast that the menu never catches up.
    — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, SFChronicle.com, 27 Jan. 2020
  • In the wake of popular trends such as the field-to-table and locavore movements, home butchery of both game and domestic meats has become more popular than ever.
    — The Editors, Outdoor Life, 26 Nov. 2019
  • The restaurant has quickly become a gathering space for the hip locavore crowd, along with groups of local moms meeting up for a coffee after walking their babies around the block.
    — Tirion Morris, The Arizona Republic, 19 Sep. 2017
  • Now, a crop of luxury developments dedicated to a more upscale version of the locavore lifestyle are taking root.
    — Wsj Real Estate, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2018
  • The locavore movement has long turned the focus inward, toward an appreciation of the state’s intrinsic assets.
    — Gregory Thomas, SFChronicle.com, 23 Aug. 2020
  • This locavore menu celebrates heritage turkey, wild mushrooms, Ozette potatoes, and cranberries all grown in the West.
    — Sunset Staff, Sunset Magazine, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Concerns about industrial-scale farming, and its impact on health and the environment, have fueled the locavore and farm-to-table movement.
    — Oliver Staley, Quartz, 23 Oct. 2020
  • Lots of craft bakers talk about growing local-grain economies, using grains harvested and milled a relatively short distance from their ovens — the locavore ethos applied to baking.
    — New York Times, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Ask for a seat at the open kitchen counter at Colonie for locavore delicacies (heritage pork and mustard spaetzle, campanelle with hen of the woods and Tuscan kale).
    — Virginia Van Zanten, Vogue, 4 Aug. 2017
  • Forced to turn inward, Icelanders instead backed domestic projects like boutique hotels, locavore eateries and designer stores.
    — Cynthia Rosenfeld, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2017
  • Suzie’s Farm, the organic darling of San Diego chefs, produce shoppers and members of the locavore movement, is pulling up roots and closing.
    — Michele Parente, sandiegouniontribune.com, 29 June 2017
  • The joint degustation menu from the three chefs celebrates the locavore movement and the produce of the two island nations, both of which are seeing their global culinary status rising.
    — Chris Dwyer, CNN, 4 May 2017
  • Now, though, he’s been heartened by people interested in foraging and the locavore movement starting to embrace invasive plants and animals as well.
    — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Her farm-to-table restaurant Freight House in Paducah, Kentucky, is a locavore’s dream.
    — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 15 Mar. 2023
  • In 420-friendly states, a growing cadre of chefs, confectioners, and entrepreneurs is intent on pulling weed out of its dank past and into our locavore, organic, chef's-menu-laden food present.
    — Marian Bull, GQ, 7 June 2018
  • Before there was farm-to-table, before there were locavores, before there was angst over gluten, the Turley family was rustling up organic brown rice, tofu, spinach omelettes, whole grain bread and every imaginable herbal tea.
    — Jerd Smith, The Denver Post, 16 May 2017
  • The industry’s lag in jumping on the locavore bandwagon is something the trade group Dairy Management concedes is a marketing opportunity lost.
    — Kevin Pang Melissa Clark Melissa Clark, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2016
  • After a bit of pampering, go for a four-course locavore dinner at the Red Fox Inn's tavern, set in a 1728 stone building with period furnishings.
    — Alison Lewis, Travel + Leisure, 10 Aug. 2023
  • And with 75 percent of the resort’s produce, meat, and fish sourced from local farmers and purveyors, and an on-property oyster farm, the resort’s restaurants are keeping money on the island and closing the locavore loop.
    — Hugh Garvey, Sunset Magazine, 1 Jan. 2024

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