A 21st century food lexicon

food deserts – urban areas with no fresh food shops

food miles - distance food has travelled

food security – availability of food and one’s access to it

flexitarian – a vegetarian who occasionally eats meat

freeganism – eating free / wild food

glean - gather leftovers (grain after a harvest), collect gradually bit by bit, see Agnes Varda's  Les Glaneurs et La Glaneuse  - The Gleaners and I  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKgjjEJvMbM

glocal  - describing the seamless integration between the local and global; the comprehensive connectedness produced by travel, business, and communications; willingness and ability to think globally and act locally

othorexic – from the Greek orth - (right and correct) + orexia (appetite) = right appetite. 1996 American physican Steven Bratman. Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food, uses it to describe people who have an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating

sitopia – from the Greek sitos – (food) + topos (place)
2008 Carolyn Steel in Hungry City, to describe an idealised food environment

locavore - a person whose diet consists only or principally of locally grown or produced food
 

locative food – “food that tells me where I am and where it’s from by its very name and nature [...] food that is not created by food product designers but by local people from local ingredients” www.cubilog.org, termed coined by food writer and curator Debra Solomon 2008.

organivore – a person who eats primarily organic food

novel food - a genetically modified or radically altered food, or a substance sold as a food that does not have a history of safe use as a food

placeless food – food that comes from anywhere and everywhere
Nina-Marie Lister, Toronto, 2000

vegetannual – eating seasonal food. Barbara Kingsolver, ‘Stalking the Vegetannual: A roadmap to eating with the seasons,’ in Orion Magazine, April/May 2007

western diet – an American junk food diet