Comments on: Creature Double Feature

by: Uncle B

Sat, 17 May 2008 21:28:31 +0000

If everyone in the USA planted their southern lawn to potatoes instead of grass, we could make so much Vodka that we could fuel our cars with it and have enough left over for a healthy profitable export trade.

by: Jonathan

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 01:37:28 +0000

I haven’t seen “The Gleaners and I,” I’m embarrassed to say. I’ve been meaning to get to it for a while now. Thanks for the nudge.

I’m thinking of starting to a photo series of rejected produce on the sale rack. Last time I went to the supermarket, I got three beautiful, big tomatoes for 60 cents. One had a skin-deep mark, but was otherwise perfect. The other two…were ripe. I swear, supermarkets are strange places.

Anyway, feel free to send any outcast produce you come across. Thanks for linking, may the sun shine on your site.

by: Victoria

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 04:38:51 +0000

I too saw your blog while doing research on the percentage of food waste that constitutes the solid waste stream.

Wondering if you’ve seen the movie, “The Gleaners and I”, a French documentary by Agnes Varda. I saw it 6 or 7 yrs. ago and the beginning opens (I think) with her filming odd shaped poatatoes she’s saved from a gigantic pile of potato culls left to rot in a Northern French potato farm. A definite must see.

Also, I’m linking your article on Culinate to a new eco-conscious minded website friends and I have started called, thesunnyway.com. Please check it out!

by: Joan

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:11:02 +0000

Ran across your blog doing research on an article I read the other day on the BBC about the cost of wasted food and how they are beginning to address the issue in Britain.

I’m posting a link to your blog on Live Journal and Stumble giving it a thumbs up on Stumble Upon. Looking forward to your book!

by: Barbara

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:29:54 +0000

I second the planting idea. You can do the same thing with sweet potatoes which threaten to take over the world with their sprouts.

by: Jonathan

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:46:04 +0000

RFW–I do have a yard! That’s a great idea, much more fun than composting.

SB–I’m not even going to dignify that with a response. I’m just going to giggle like a fifth grader.

by: SB

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:59:50 +0000

You wrote “tentacles.” I saw “testicles.” Look at that photo…is it just me?

by: Recovering Food Waster

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:39:49 +0000

Those are great.

Do you have a yard? You could bury them in the ground and let them grow. We did that last summer and it was fun to dig up the little potatoes in the fall.