<p>"Food desert" has become a <a href="https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-access-research-atlas/documentation/#definitions" target="_blank">common term</a> to describe low-income communities — often communities of color — where access to healthy and affordable food is limited or where there are no grocery stores. Living in Tucson, Arizona, in the Sonoran Desert, taught me that despite its common usage, "food desert" is an inaccurate and misleading term that...