foodshed
n.— «According to a study undertaken in the Recife foodshed area…,the lower 58 percent of families spent approximately 70 percent of their income on food.» —“Bodo Was Never Brazilian: Economic Integration and Rural Development among a Contemporary Peasantry” by J. F. Riegelhaupt; S. Forman Journal of Economic History Mar., 1970. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Colin from Los Angeles, California, is pondering the expression make no bones about it, which suggests the speaker is talking or acting with no hesitation whatsoever. The saying is inspired by the idea of literally finding bones in one’s food, since...
A North Carolina listener is curious about his meemaw’s use of a term meaning “food” that he heard as either jasmine or jassum. A dialectal term with various spellings that include jassum, jasum, and jazm can mean “gravy,” “sauce,” or even “juice...