The word ort sometimes means a small bite of food left on a plate, and it’s a handy word for crossword puzzle solvers. Many people first encounter ort at summer camp. Linda of New York City heard it when she chaperoned her daughter’s...
Jill in Shelton, Washington, says that when she lived in Southern California, she understood the word garbage to mean food scraps, with trash referring to everything else collected curbside. Historically, garbage has referred to the wet, disgusting...
luxus consumption n.— «Pennsylvania State University professor Dorothy Blair and Cornell professor Jeffery Sobal use the term “luxus consumption” to mean “food waste and over-consumption leading to storage of body fat...