Getty Images. The organic-food business is booming: About 70 percent of Americans buy organic food occasionally, and nearly one quarter buy it every week, according to the Hartman Group, a market research firm.
Top Definition. purple prose. a term used to describe literature where the writing is unnecessarily flowery. it means that the writer described the situation (or wrote the entire book, passage, etc) using words that are too extravagant for the type of text, or any text at all.
Prose = words in their best order; poetry = the best words in their best order [Samuel Taylor Coleridge Table Talk] Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it [Jeremy Bentham] All that is not prose is verse; and all that is not verse is prose [MoliÃ¨re Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme]