A while back, I ranted about the word bounty. Very little attention was paid to it, which is probably the right response in light of my Andy Rooney-ish attitude. But earlier this week, I got a press release that said "thanks to the abundance of bounty..."
Which is saying "thanks to a lot of a lot..."
Seriously. Enough with bounty. Crops, harvest and produce are all very nice words when you are trying to describe the piles of vegetable ingredients at farm stands and farmers markets.
In related not-exciting food grammar: I still prefer farmers' market, but the national farmers market association has adopted farmers market as the correct term. If it's good enough for them, I'll surrender that apostrophe. Although I'll miss it. I do wish that every market would do the same--there are markets in our state that use farmers, farmer's and farmers' in their names.
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