The annual summer Fancy Food Show at New York’s Javits Center ended yesterday at 4 p.m. About five hours later, two tractor trailers full of perishables had been picked up and four more trailer loads of dry goods were collected this morning. Who were those masked food rescuers that made it happen? City Harvest.
As you can see, […]

This past weekend I dug through the trash. To be more specific, I volunteered to help a local festival compost their organic waste. While this year’s numbers won’t be in for a week or two, the festival diverted 93 percent of the trash from the landfill in 2006. 
Here’s how my three-hour shift went: organizers dropped off bags of […]

I recently wrote about the EsmoSphere food preservation magnet that can slow food waste. Since its kind Singaporean manufacturers sent me a sample, the least I could do is test it out and share the results.
Since I received the seafood model, I decided to assess it with the sea life I cook most often: shrimp.
At the seafood counter, I had the […]

Last week I went around with the nation’s first food recovery group, City Harvest. This New York City group saves 20 million pounds of food annually that would otherwise be shipped to landfills in…New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Virginia! That total would fill 500 tractor trailers full of food, which, if lined up, would stretch more […]

Is this a waste of food, an American tradition or both?  
Also, is it ridiculous to equate beating Japanese competitive eater Kobayashi, the 5-time Nathan’s hot dog champion, with patriotism? In the leadup to the 4th of July competition, the American challenger in the contest took that line:
“I’m going to push harder on our Independence Day to […]

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 Beach […]

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 cancelled […]