Esculent

adj.

Suitable for eating; edible.

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[Latin sculentus, from sca, food, from edere, s-, to eat; see ed- in Indo-European roots.]

From on the Road by Jack Kerouac:

There were seafood places out there where the buns were hot, and the baskets were good enough to eat too; where the menus themselves were soft with foody 
esculence as though dipped in hot broths roasted dry and good enough to eat too. 

Pp: Permaculture

n. A system of perennial agriculture emphasizing the use of renewable natural resources and the enrichment of local ecosystems. [perma(nent) + (agri)culture.] perma·cultur·ist, perma·cultur·al·ist n.

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Ww: Where You From Buddy Resteraunts

But Franchisers don't sell many of their thirty-billion hamburgers per year in blue highway towns where chophouses must draw customers through continuing quality rather national advertising. I had nothing to lose but the chains, and I hoped to find down the country roads. Ma in her beanery and Pap over his barbecue pit, both still serving slow food from the place they did thirty years ago.
Heat-Moon, William Blue Highways (Boston: Houghton Mifflin,1991), 16.