Category Archives: Personal

Hooray for Rachael

I’m not much for cooking shows. I can’t stomach all those wasted ingredients as they switch from the mixing bowl to the version finishing in the oven. Plus, they make me hungry. But I wanted to give credit where it’s due to an obscure host named Rachael Ray. You may have seen her on your box of Wheat Thins […]

October 18, 2007 | Also posted in History and Culture, Household | Comments closed

Pick a Pepper

Would you pay a quarter for this pepper? That’s what I paid yesterday for this pepper that I found on my supermarket’s reduced price rack. It came packaged with a similarly blemished pepper (see below) for 50 cents. Not surprisingly, I’m a big believer in this idea. As we’ve discussed before, many supermarkets shoot for perfect-looking produce. Anything that […]

October 9, 2007 | Also posted in Food Safety, Supermarket | Comments closed

Less Rice Save Money Day!

Beginning in December, diners in Hong Kong will receive a discount for asking for less rice than usual. Sure, it’ll only be one day a month, but it’s still a neat idea. As the South China Morning Post (log in required) reports: From December, the first Wednesday of each month will be designated “Less Rice Save […]

October 3, 2007 | Also posted in International, Restaurant | Comments closed

Talk about waste!

Last night I spoke to a local group of young professionals about food waste. As much as I like blogging to you discerning readers, the talk was a nice opportunity to converse with an audience that could and did ask questions and challenge some assumptions.  Some attendees were curious about the statistic that we don’t eat a quarter of the […]

September 25, 2007 | Also posted in History and Culture, Household | Comments closed

The Weekly Waste Word: hot dog buns

Specialty breads are the most frequently wasted baked goods. We’re talking about hamburger and hot dog buns, mostly. When planning a barbecue, it’s hard to know how many packages to buy and, often, we get too many for fear of running out. Then you don’t cook all the meat or people aren’t eating carbs, etc. For a variety of reasons, […]

September 10, 2007 | Also posted in Household, The Weekly Waste Word | Comments closed