tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-373205202024-03-13T23:57:44.284-04:00Food Jargon Watchsurfing the shifting lexis of cuisine and cultureUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger73125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37320520.post-22197067771240437162009-05-29T16:50:00.003-04:002009-05-29T16:58:19.091-04:00Food Jargon of the Day: Housemade<span style="font-weight:bold;">housemade</span><br />Term used by restaurants to indicate food items prepared from scratch such as "housemade pickles," "housemade gnocchi," and "housemade horseradish." Replaces the more amateur-sounding "homemade." Courtesy of <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/id/198852">Newsweek</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37320520.post-28094534918951225322009-05-26T10:09:00.002-04:002009-05-26T10:13:48.970-04:00Food Jargon of the Day: test tube meat and schmeat/shmeat<span style="font-weight:bold;">test tube meat</span><br />Meat produced via <a href="http://foodjargonwatch.blogspot.com/search?q=PETA">in vitro processes</a>, i.e., grown in test tubes, rather than on farms. Test tube meat is an attempt to create humane, slaughter house-free meat.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">schmeat/shmeat</span><br />Schmeat or shmeat, depending on your preferred spelling, is another term for "test tube meat." Coined by Dr. Vladimir Mironov, a biologist at the <a href="http://www.musc.edu/">Medical University of South Carolina</a>, who is working to culture meat from animal tissue.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37320520.post-12179186793640722962009-05-22T10:22:00.002-04:002009-05-22T10:23:30.984-04:00Food Jargon of the Day: Wildharvesting & Urban Foraging<span style="font-weight:bold;">wildharvesting</span><br />fancy term for foraging.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">urban foraging</span><br />foraging in urban spaces - finding wild foods and edibles in local fields, backyards, playgrounds, public land.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37320520.post-35529283664505428312009-05-12T09:15:00.003-04:002009-05-12T09:20:41.259-04:00Food Jargon of the Day: Meat Cards<span style="font-weight:bold;">Meat Cards</span><br /><a href="http://www.meatcards.com/">Business cards</a> created from "100% beef jerky" - contact information is seared onto the jerky with a laser. Seriously.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ2AlM5NLPFMAR2SdfMVF07OCOlGewGbKBuu-TAWqp2Gp8-8fK0lhbFSPHZF0JapJSu_hhT1bxmF0eTwodO2d3TScH6C-RYsKUYZmAcpev8jM1kOnrKjzyRGvHCf2ZSKDRJ8Li/s1600-h/3506816321_731756482c.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 238px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ2AlM5NLPFMAR2SdfMVF07OCOlGewGbKBuu-TAWqp2Gp8-8fK0lhbFSPHZF0JapJSu_hhT1bxmF0eTwodO2d3TScH6C-RYsKUYZmAcpev8jM1kOnrKjzyRGvHCf2ZSKDRJ8Li/s400/3506816321_731756482c.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334926479423749794" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37320520.post-4176686823625665082009-05-04T09:09:00.003-04:002009-05-12T09:15:13.996-04:00Food Jargon of the Day: Aporkalypse Now!<span style="font-weight:bold;">Aporkalypse Now!</span><br />term du jour used by journalists to refer to the swine flu epidemic.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37320520.post-67189234637878309852009-04-26T08:22:00.001-04:002009-04-26T08:25:58.982-04:00Food Jargon of the Day: Gourmonsters<span style="font-weight:bold;">Gourmonsters</span><br />Food snobs, food police. Courtesy of the <a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/04222009/entertainment/food/gourmonsters_165584.htm">New York Post</a>. Also see <a href="http://foodjargonwatch.blogspot.com/2009/04/food-jargon-of-day-arugulance.html">"Arugulance"</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37320520.post-20698735955283985762009-04-24T13:29:00.002-04:002009-05-12T09:10:29.522-04:00Food Jargon of the Day: Dry farming<span style="font-weight:bold;">Dry Farming</span><br /><br />a type of farming practiced in arid areas without irrigation by planting drought-resistant crops and maintaining a fine surface tilth or mulch that protects the natural moisture of the soil from evaporation.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37320520.post-38237976255348065592009-04-24T08:58:00.003-04:002009-04-24T09:05:25.342-04:00Food Jargon of the Day: S.O.L.E./ S.O.L.E. Food<span style="font-weight:bold;">S.O.L.E./ S.O.L.E Food</span><br />An acronym for "sustainable, organic, local and ethical" eating; a theory of eating that takes into account the numerous factors related to each of these concepts.<br />See also: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/dmxefj">http://tinyurl.com/dmxefj</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37320520.post-48389645396572263792009-04-23T08:22:00.003-04:002009-04-23T08:37:31.271-04:00Food Jargon of the Day: Arugulance<span style="font-weight:bold;">Arugulance</span><br />Food snobbery, typified by a penchant for arugula. From "<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/opinion/19dowd.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Maureen%20Dowd%20April%2019&st=cse">The Aura of Arugulance</a>," a NY Times Op Ed piece by Maureen Dowd. Used by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Waters">Alice Waters</a> in response to criticisms of arrogance and condescension:<br /><br />“I’m just put into that arugulance place. I own a fancy restaurant. I own an expensive restaurant. I never thought of it as fancy. People don’t know we’re supporting 85 farms and ranches and all of that. And so my first thing I say, it’s going to cost more and I want to pay for my food. I go to the farmers’ market; it makes me feel like I’m making a donation.”<br /><br />Hmmm....Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37320520.post-7562021080710389262009-04-02T14:29:00.002-04:002009-04-02T14:35:30.030-04:00Food Jargon of the Day: Community Supported Forage<span style="font-weight:bold;">Community Supported Forage (CSF) </span><br />Modeled on Community Supported Agriculture organic-farm boxes, <a href="http://www.foragesf.com/">forageSF</a>, a San Francisco-based foraging subscription service, provides clients with a biweekly allotment of seasonal foraged products. This week's box includes: four kinds of wild mushrooms, foraged oranges, wild onions, sea beans and miner's lettuceUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37320520.post-31974763952828086082009-04-01T12:02:00.005-04:002009-04-01T12:14:45.583-04:00Food Jargon of the Day: Twecipes and Recessipes<span style="font-weight:bold;">twecipes </span><br />An extremely abbreviated recipe, published via Twitter, that provides cooking instructions in no more than 140 characters. The Observer <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/mar/29/twitter-recipes">reports</a>:"There is a growing trend for people, including some leading chefs, to create micro-recipes - a single paragraph that tells users how to make an entire starter, main course or dessert - then transmit them via Twitter."<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">recesspes</span><br />Cost-saving recipes for cooking in a recession economy. ABC News <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Breakfast/story?id=7169225&page=1">reports</a>: "Times are tough, and many of us are rediscovering the benefits of a home-cooked meal. The folks at the <a href="http://www.foodnetwork.com/">Food Network</a> discovered that recently more people are searching the network's Web site looking for recipes that are easy on the waistline, as well as the wallet. In response, the Food Network has created what it is calling "recessipes" -- meals that will leave both your stomach and bank accounts full."<br /><br />Today's Food Jargon Watch courtesy of <a href="http://www.thefoodsection.com/">The Food Section</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37320520.post-72963570188658614422009-03-27T18:39:00.005-04:002009-04-01T17:49:43.847-04:00Food Jargon of the Day: Traceability<span style="font-weight:bold;">Traceability</span><br />Web sites such as <a href="http://www.findthefarmer.com/">Find the Farmer</a>, and special labels on the packages that let buyers learn about and even contact the farmers who produced their food. Courtesy of the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/28/technology/internet/28farmer.html?hpw">NY Times</a>. See <a href="http://foodjargonwatch.blogspot.com/2009/01/food-jargon-of-day-oprah-ization-of.html"> The Oprah-ization of Food</a> and <a http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifhref="http://foodjargonwatch.blogspot.com/search?q=provenance">Provenance of Food</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37320520.post-27429605356052742372009-03-24T12:32:00.004-04:002009-03-24T12:44:15.294-04:00Food Jargon of the Day: Organic Junk Food/Vegan Junk Food<span style="font-weight:bold;">Organic Junk Food</span><br />Courtesy of <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/22/weekinreview/22bittman.html?_r=1&em">Marion Nestle</a>. Whether it's organic Oreos or regular Oreos: "Organic junk food is still junk food.”<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Vegan Junk Food</span><br />(aka <a href="http://www.archure.net/salus/veganjunkfood.html">Vegan OK Junk Food </a>)<br />Junk foods not made from any animal products nor animal by-products.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37320520.post-25611816442104449842009-03-23T11:42:00.003-04:002009-04-24T08:56:21.351-04:00Food Jargon of The Day: Food Stamp Challenge<span style="font-weight:bold;">Food Stamp Challenge</span><br />Individuals who aren't on food stamps live on the allocation for their state for one month or one week. In 2007, in an effort to help raise hunger awareness, Oakland Congresswoman <a href="http://www.truveo.com/Oakland-Congresswoman-Spends-A-Week-Living-On-Food/id/3178894498">Barbara Lee</a> took the “Food Stamp Challenge,” and lived on just $21 - or $3 per day - for one week. In a <a href="http://www.latimes.com/features/food/la-fo-stamp11-2009mar11,0,5424533.story">recent</a> LA Times article, a journalist and his wife take the Food Stamp Challenge to save money to buy a house: "A couple takes the Food Stamp Challenge and discovers it is possible to eat healthfully on a tight budget. Careful planning and a home garden help." Right...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37320520.post-9719065028931996722009-03-23T11:18:00.002-04:002009-03-23T11:23:46.999-04:00Food Jargon of the Day: The First Locavore<span style="font-weight:bold;">The First Locavore</span><br />New <a href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/03/michele-obama-first-locavore-oprah-white-house-garden.php?dcitc=weekly_nl">title</a> given to Michelle Obama (formerly know as the "First Lady") after <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/20/dining/20garden.html">breaking ground</a> for an <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2009/03/20/us/20garden_grphic.html">organic garden</a> at the White House.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37320520.post-84025744439648015512009-01-29T12:56:00.004-05:002009-03-23T11:30:36.388-04:00Food Jargon of the Day: The Oprah-ization of Food<span style="font-weight:bold;">The Oprah-ization of Food</span><br /><br />From an <a href="http://adage.com/columns/article?article_id=134021">article </a>in <span style="font-style:italic;">Advertising Age</span>, "The Oprah-ization of Food" refers to the need for "our food to come with compelling stories." For example, <a href="http://www.doleorganic.com/">Dole organic bananas</a> are branded with a number you can enter on the company's website and find out to where it was picked and discover by whom. See <a href="http://foodjargonwatch.blogspot.com/search?q=provenance">food provenance</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37320520.post-14240979020548656852008-11-16T10:55:00.002-05:002008-11-16T11:03:26.837-05:00Food Jargon of the Day: Edible Cocktails/Solid Cocktails<span style="font-weight:bold;">edible cocktails/solid cocktails </span><br />Cocktails that you eat instead of drink. According to an article in today's <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/fashion/16shake.html?_r=1&ref=fashion&oref=slogin">NY Times</a>, solid cocktails offered by restaurants in NYC include a gelatinized Cuba Libre, a Ramos gin fizz marshmallow and a martini in the form of a pickle. Adult jello shots, anyone?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37320520.post-92033197076023536502008-10-31T23:05:00.003-04:002008-10-31T23:15:11.883-04:00Food Jargon of the Day: Urban Gleaning<span style="font-weight:bold;">Urban Gleaning</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Gleaning</span> is the practice of collecting leftover crops from farmers' fields after they have been mechanically harvested, or from fields that are not economically profitable to harvest. <span style="font-weight:bold;">Urban gleaning</span> is the practice of salvaging fruit from trees located in cities to provide low income residents with access to fresh fruit. For more information, checkout the <a href="http://portlandfruit.org/">Portland Fruit Tree Project</a>, a gleaning initiative that organizes people in the Portland, Oregon to gather fruit before it falls, and make it available to those who need it most.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37320520.post-72524754265149551392008-10-09T16:23:00.005-04:002008-10-09T16:47:49.399-04:00Food Jargon Watch: Imitation Edibles and In Vitro Meat<span style="font-weight:bold;">Imitation Edibles</span><br />All manner of fake food - from <a href="http://foodjargonwatch.blogspot.com/2008/09/food-jargon-of-day-faux-meat.html">faux meats</a> to near beer and liquid smoke. Mock foods seem to be the gastric meme of the moment with the current edition of <a href="http://www.vegnews.com/current_issue.html">VegNews</a> focusing on faux meats, Emily Nunn's recent article in the <a href="http://www.latimes.com/features/food/foodanddrink/sns-fdcook3-wk3,0,3608358.story">Chicago Tribune</a> on fake foods (from which the term "imitation edibles" is culled), and PETA's challenge to scientists to step up research into in vitro meats (see below).<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">In Vitro Meat</span><br />Laboratory produced meat "grown" from animal stem cells. In vitro meat is not yet a reality, but <a href="http://www.peta.org/feat_in_vitro_contest.asp">PETA</a> (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) is offering a $1 million reward to the first scientist to produce and make in vitro meat available to consumers. According to the PETA website, in vitro meat would enable the production of meat without killing any animals.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37320520.post-49085107718621424352008-09-30T15:24:00.004-04:002008-10-06T20:08:46.422-04:00Food Jargon of the Day: Faux Meat<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiatluRWHzBBbMsWO8jh66HvPPVsPGmYNO8DEdV5TIInpWWWt8cYWRy_9VODS7DePkPTdEdU_u6YYvzHThBwQw0dHwoMfChFmsMuYx_bWKTAQxohbY4UGWBOe48GgU6f5sbxS1q/s1600-h/vhaggisjpg.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiatluRWHzBBbMsWO8jh66HvPPVsPGmYNO8DEdV5TIInpWWWt8cYWRy_9VODS7DePkPTdEdU_u6YYvzHThBwQw0dHwoMfChFmsMuYx_bWKTAQxohbY4UGWBOe48GgU6f5sbxS1q/s400/vhaggisjpg.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5254196959509463218" /></a><span style="font-weight:bold;">Faux Meat</span><br />Meat substitutes used by vegetarians and vegans. Some meat substitutes - tofu, <a href="http://vegetarian.about.com/od/glossary/g/Seitan.htm">seitan</a>, <a href="http://www.tempeh.info/">tempeh</a> - have been used by eastern cultures for eons, while others like <a href="http://www.tofurky.com/">tofurkey</a>, <a href="http://www.gardenburger.com/product.aspx?id=12551">meatless riblets</a>, and <a href="http://store.foodfightgrocery.com/veganhaggis.html">vegan haggis</a> are new additions to the vegetarian kitchen. Also known as "<span style="font-weight:bold;">meat analog"</span> and <span style="font-weight:bold;">"mock meat."Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37320520.post-9576043887213398202008-09-28T18:30:00.005-04:002009-03-23T11:39:51.732-04:00Food Jargon of the Day: Cookzine<span style="font-weight:bold;">cookzine </span><br />Self-published, do-it-yourself (DIY) cookbooks. Often focusing on vegan diet and cuisine, cookzines sprang from punk culture in the 1980s and continue to be published today. Cookzines contain recipes, info on veganism, personal testimonies, and commentary by the writer. Classic cookzines include <a href="http://microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/books/187/"><span style="font-style:italic;">Soy Not Oi!</span></a> and <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.akpress.org/2003/items/barkgrass">Bark+Grass: Revolution Supper</a></span>. Both <a href="http://microcosmpublishing.com/">Microcosm Publishing</a> and <a href="http://www.akpress.org/">AK Press</a> carry a selection of old and new cookzines.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37320520.post-60824319776418916612008-09-10T11:10:00.001-04:002008-09-10T11:10:46.572-04:00Food Jargon of the Day: Food Insecurity/Food Security<span style="font-weight:bold;">Food Insecurity </span><br />The inability to access enough nutritious foods to fulfill caloric needs.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Food Security</span><br />The availability of, and access to, a safe, nutritionally adequate, and culturally acceptable diet.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37320520.post-47457376737396340282008-09-08T10:39:00.001-04:002008-09-08T10:40:10.118-04:00Food Jargon of the Day: Humane Meat, Mindful Meat-Eating, Post-vegetarian<span style="font-weight:bold;">Humane meat</span><br />Humanely-raised meat which comes from farms that try to give each of their animals a more pleasant life - i.e., animals are not caged, fed hormones or antibiotics, and are pasture-fed.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />Mindful Meat-Eating</span><br />Ethical meat eating, i.e., eating only humanely-raised meat. <br />See also, <a href="http://foodjargonwatch.blogspot.com/search?q=Omnivore"> Careful Carnivore/Caring Carnivore/Conscientious Carnivore</a>. <br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Post-vegetarian</span><br />Individuals who were formerly vegetarian, but now eat meat.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37320520.post-54531938953478001612008-09-06T17:41:00.004-04:002008-09-08T10:30:20.033-04:00Food Jargon of the Day: Mobile Slaughterhouse<span style="font-weight:bold;">Mobile Slaughterhouse (a.k.a. Slaughterhouse on Wheels)</span><br />A retrofitted diesel truck that serves as a slaughterhouse for farmers in remote areas of Washington and Oregon without easy access to U.S.D.A. approved butchering facilities. The <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122054916174600403.html?mod=hpp_us_pageone">mobile slaughterhouse</a> is federally sanctioned and comes complete with a 300-gallon water tank, a cooling locker with carcass hooks, and a butcher.<br /><br />Thanks to Gerard for the heads-up on this bit of jargon.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37320520.post-89667104131269376802008-08-27T21:38:00.004-04:002008-09-08T10:14:45.572-04:00Food Jargon of the Day: Anti-Restaurant<span style="font-weight:bold;">Anti-restaurant</span><br />Another moniker for <a href="http://foodjargonwatch.blogspot.com/2006/11/weekly-jargon-round-up.html"><span style="font-weight:bold;">underground restaurants</span></a>. Anti-restaurants are unlicensed restaurants in apartments and other private spaces run by individuals who do not necessarily aspire to full-time restaurateur-status or, in the words of a recent <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/dining/27boar.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=anti-restaurants&st=cse&oref=slogin">NY Times article</a>, do not want to mess "with overhead and investors and the health department — a k a The Man — telling them what to do." Resistance, so it seems, can be tasty.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com