Interview on WNYC’s “The Leonard Lopate Show” about “locavore” and other food-related terms. (Oct. 10, 2012)
Ben Zimmer, language columnist for the Boston Globe and executive producer of the Visual Thesaurus and Vocabulary.com, talks about the origin of the words “locavore” and “vegetarian” and the many variations that have been developed, such as “pescatarians” and “flexitarians.”