2012: The Year in Food Words
wine apart·ments (noun): A Tokyo property developer broke ground this year on the Shibuya Shinsen Wine Apartment Project, an upscale apartment complex aimed at wine lovers that will feature a wine bar
and bistro on the ground floor, along with a 10,000-bottle underground wine
cellar. The apartments are due to be completed in 2013.
sour·dough ho·tel
(noun): Stockholm’s Urban Deli charges 300 Swedish Krona
($43) per week at its surdegshotell (sourdough hotel) where sourdough
starters are maintained with daily "feedings" of flour and water while their owners leave town for vacation.
broc·co·li man·date (noun): During oral arguments on the Affordable Care Act, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia famously invoked the concept of the "broccoli mandate" to dispute the constuitutionality of the law: "Everybody has to buy food sooner or later," he argued. "Therefore, you can make people buy broccoli."
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