Category Archives: Food Recovery

Rockin’ and Wrappin’ II

This past Thursday and Friday, I witnessed stadium food donation in action. The non-profit group Rock and Wrap It Up! facilitated both events, a Mets game and a Bob Dylan concert.  For the concert, Rock and Wrap It Up! honchos Syd and Diane Mandelbaum took me from a Long Island Rail Road stop to Jones […]

July 3, 2007 | Posted in Food Recovery | Comments closed

Rockin’ and Wrappin’

This past Thursday and Friday, I witnessed stadium food donation in action. The non-profit group Rock and Wrap It Up! facilitated both events, a Mets game and a Bob Dylan concert.  The baseball game was postponed due to an incoming storm. While disappointing for both baseball fans and bloggers, the rain out was a boon for food donation. Because the game was […]

July 2, 2007 | Also posted in Food Safety | Comments closed

Big Apple

No I’m not writing about the new iPhone (Although my tech people tell me that by including that word I may attract traffic). The Apple I’m talking about is the little hamlet called New York City.   I’m headed to the Big Apple to observe a few food recovery operations. Thursday and Friday nights I’ll see how […]

June 28, 2007 | Posted in Food Recovery | Comments closed

5,4,3,2…

Here’s a little light weekend reading. It’s not brand new, but a recent scientific study has ramifications on food waste.  Also, here’s an older study of that oh-so-vaunted law of food hygiene, the five-second rule. If this traditional theory is discredited, will more food be wasted?

June 16, 2007 | Also posted in History and Culture | Comments closed

Replate: first-rate or not so great?

A bunch of San Francisco “troublemakers who make good things happen in culture and commerce” are drawing much-needed attention to food waste. Language in Common recently launched a fascinating web campaign urging people to leave their unwanted doggie bags atop trash cans for hungry folks to eat. Essentially, they’ve taken an observed behavior and made it a verb: Replate. Hmm… Five things I […]

June 14, 2007 | Also posted in Food Safety, Waste Stream | Comments closed

Hot Potato

Yesterday, I volunteered at the 4th Annual Potato Drop at the Raleigh Farmer’s Market. As you’d guess, a potato drop involves a large load of potatoes dropped in one location. What you may not know is that the event raises awareness for wasted food and food recovery while distributing healthy food to those in need. Nash Produce donated […]

June 13, 2007 | Also posted in Events | Comments closed

Hunger Day Doings

Last week’s National Hunger Awareness Day sparked some legislative action. At least it provided the peg on which legislators could hang two interesting bills.  Senators Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ), Elizabeth Dole (R-NC) and Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) introduced two bills. On June 5, they launched the Hunger Relief Trucking Tax Credit Act, which would give a 25-cent […]

June 12, 2007 | Posted in Food Recovery | Comments closed

Food Falls to Non-Profits

Anyone who’s been to a casino can imagine the amount of food wasted at buffets and through the sheer volume of restaurant service. Two casinos on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls are minimizing that waste by donating heaps of prepared food to local charities. The United Way of Niagara Falls collects this high quality food and distributes it […]

June 7, 2007 | Also posted in Casino, International | Comments closed

Are You Hungry?

Today is National Hunger Awareness Day. Do you and your family struggle to find enough food? If not, maybe you should help the 10 percent of Americans who do. To find out what hunger awareness events are happening in your state, America’s Second Harvest created this handy tool. Some of the options are pretty painless, such as eating […]

June 5, 2007 | Also posted in History and Culture | Comments closed

Yesterday’s Sushi

Excess food is a part of the restaurant business.  I believe that reducing surplus food is the ideal, but that requires sacrificing either sales (only order a set amount for each day) or convenience (prepare food to order).  Sometimes those sacrifices just aren’t feasible. It’s what restaurants do with the excess that interests me. They have three main choices: throw it […]

May 29, 2007 | Also posted in Food Safety, Restaurant | Comments closed