Category Archives: Personal

Parents of Wasted Food

No, I’m not writing to confess how much food waste family life creates. That’ll come in a year or so. (Joking, hopefully). More to the point, my parents are in town helping out while we get used to life with a son (a cute guy, in my humble opinion). Fortunately for us, my mom has […]

February 16, 2009 | Also posted in Household, Repurposing | Comments closed

A Pause for Life

If you’re reading this right now, I’m in the hospital. My lovely wife is now in labor. Well, probably. Unless you’re reading this a day or two later, in which case our son might have hatched. Wow, this feels like a movie. Only if that were the case you’d be hearing these words in a […]

February 9, 2009 | Posted in Personal | Comments closed

Shopping Day(s)

With a baby arriving any day now (my wife is past her due date), I’ve been hesitant to do much meal planning. I don’t want to be in the hospital fretting about that whole chicken in the fridge. As a result, I’ve been grocery shopping on a day-to-day basis. I have to say: it’s not […]

February 4, 2009 | Also posted in Farmers' Market, Household, Supermarket | Comments closed

Chicken Pops

Last night I made a whole chicken. The pan collected a nice amount of chicken juices, spices and butter that I’d applied to the skin. After the meal, I wasn’t sure what to do with this excess liquid, but I knew it was way too tasty to toss. After considering the options–while my dog lobbied […]

January 12, 2009 | Also posted in Household | Comments closed

New Year, New Resolutions

Believe it or not, another year is finished (again?). As we celebrate 2009’s beginning, let’s resolve to reduce food waste. Because I doubt I can communicate my thoughts any better, here’s an op-ed I wrote in 2006. In addition to recycling ideas from two years ago (recycle, reduce, reuse, right?!), I’m making a few new […]

December 31, 2008 | Also posted in Composting, Garden, Household | Comments closed

About that sentence next to my photo…

I’ve been doing this site for the last two years. And the entire time the home page has read, “Jonathan Bloom is writing a book on wasted food in America.” While that has been true in one sense, it is awesomely correct today with the announcement of my book deal in Publisher’s Weekly. Obviously, I’m […]

December 15, 2008 | Posted in Personal | Comments closed

Good Food (Wasted)

This Saturday, I was on KCRW’s Good Food with friendly host Evan Kleiman. You can listen to the interview via this cool player, which smartly delineates all of the segments. Not that you’d want to skip through any of them… Oh, and I did find it a tad ironic that the same show had a(n […]

December 15, 2008 | Posted in Personal | Comments closed

Quick Trigger

Monday, I referenced snagging some produce from a vendor’s compost box at my local farmers’ market. (I love how the tomato on the market’s site isn’t perfect–very honest) I also bought some stuff from that vendor and couldn’t help notice the many decent-looking peppers and squash in their compost bin as I paid. Out of […]

November 6, 2008 | Also posted in Farm | Comments closed

Best Laid Plans

You’ve read my rants about the importance of menu planning before. What you haven’t seen, though, is such a detailed, step-by-step rundown. As you’ll see, Simple Mom walks readers through her Google Calendar-aided method. It’s quite a system, and one that I think could help many of you cut down on cabinet castaways and forgotten […]

November 3, 2008 | Also posted in Household | Comments closed

Weather We Waste

Brrr. Here in North Carolina we just dipped into frost season. The cold, while handy for preserving your jack-o-lantern, will signal the end for all but the underground crops and hearty winter greens (collards, anyone?). For those still hanging on to a few late season crops, it may be time to pick what you have […]

October 30, 2008 | Also posted in Garden | Comments closed