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distavore

distavore
 n.— «To prove how wrong the farm-to-table movement is, I cooked a dinner purely of farm-to-airplane food. Nothing I made was grown within 3,000 miles of where I live in Los Angeles.…My distavore meal was more a smorgasbord than a smart fusion of cultures, but I still ate the way only a very rich person could have dined just 15 years ago.» —“Extreme Eating” by Joel Stein Time Jan. 10, 2008. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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