food-shed
n.— «When the population grows to where it eats all that such a “food-shed” can grow, there you have your limit to size.» —by Martin D. Stevers Steel Trails: The Epic of the Railroads , 1933. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
“Cornbread,” a poem by Kentucky writer Silas House, is thick with sensory memories of Appalachian cooking and family: scooping cornmeal by hand and “the splash of egg, the gallop of buttermilk.” The poet recalls his mother cooking after work, the...
Kelly from Butte, Montana, recalls that when a few morsels remained at the end of a meal, her grandmother would say, Make it a nice day tomorrow, meaning everyone should eat all their food. A version used by a childhood friend’s family was...