Become a "locavore", save a polar bear?

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This year, one must practice "local eating for global change," said Canadian-based cookbook author Alisa Smith.

If the turkey, veggies, breads and other holiday menu staples are not grown or produced within 100 miles of home, forget it. Such items require too much fossil fuel to get them from field to table, Ms. Smith reasoned — but her logic has serious impact on granny's traditions. Cinnamon and nutmeg are verboten in the pumpkin pie, for example; both spices are imported. And unless a bog is down the block, cranberries can be on the no-no list as well.

Her notion of a "100-mile Thanksgiving" has riveted foodies in New York, Colorado, California, New Hampshire, Virginia and elsewhere; converts will blog about their consciousness-raising meals in the next 48 hours, according to Ms. Smith.

It's all part of being a holiday "locavore," a term coined by San Francisco chef Jessica Prentice two years ago. The word has since become so pervasive in the popular press that it was named "word of the year" earlier this month by the New Oxford American Dictionary.