Unlike most of America, I did not partake in any shopping
on the day after Thanksgiving. Instead, I chose to stay in bed all day, and
engage in another popular American pastime, watching hours of reruns on
television. As I was flipping through the channels, I came across a special on
one of my favorite stations, The Food Network called 'The Big Waste'.
Apparently, top chefs like Bobby Flay, Anne Burrell, Michael Simon and a few
others agreed to take part in a challenge to make food for 100 people, all made
with found, not purchased food. Throughout the episode, they engaged in
dumpster diving, produce salvaging, and gathering 'unusable' ingredients from restaurants,
butchers and grocers. I found it a useful way to introduce alternate
lifestyles, while simultaneously uncovering the mass amounts of food wasted,
due to aesthetic imperfections. If it's not pretty, people won't eat it, so it
must be dumped, naturally.
The day after indulging in various food dishes, leaves
one to think about how much tons of food is wasted yearly and where exactly the
ingredients come from...
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