The food waste book market is ‘hotting up.’ A book called Waste is now out in the UK. I’m excited about it and hope to get my hands on a copy soon.
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California’s East Bay MUD is the first wastewater treatment plant in the U.S. to turn post-consumer food waste into energy 
via Anaerobic Digestion. Pretty specific first, there! But great news, nonetheless.
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Potlucks: a great way to reduce and/or discuss food waste. My question: what’s the etiquette on taking/leaving leftovers? Do you leave them with the host or do you take what you brought?
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For those of you looking for more ways to avoid food waste, here are 20 tips.
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Finally, I would totally take part in a garbage-sorting contest. Why wasn’t composting part of it, though? (What with Seattle’s near-mandatory composting.)
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8 responses to “Friday Buffet”
Rachael Ray had a long segment on uses for stale bread. One of the several dishes she prepared was one my spouse called “bread pudding with an Italian name”. RR was the one who has had several crouton making segments.
It was a repeat on our local CBS. I don’t know how one would go about finding it again.
In response to potluck etiquette: I think it’s up to the host to decide; however, I feel it’s also polite as the host to offer the leftovers up to guests that would eat them up!
About Potlucks:
I normally offer the food to the host first, and ask if she or he would like it and will eat it. Sometimes they take all of it, or part of it, or none of it. If any guests ask to take some home, I let them too. Then I take it home and enjoy it.
My experience is that guests take home food – often not the food they brought – and usually the host offers the guests first choice. The host may have quietly packed away something before doing the offering, though.
If I ran the world, I’d implement a Leftover Draft as the standard operating procedure. Each person gets to choose what they want to take home, kind of like a yankee swap. The only issue would be figuring out the picking order. Whoever has the least left on their plate? Nah. Roll of the dice?
But, we’ll have to figure out a way to watch for sneaky hosts who pack away some stuff before the draft, as WilliamB mentioned (hadn’t thought of that!).
“But, we’ll have to figure out a way to watch for sneaky hosts who pack away some stuff before the draft, as WilliamB mentioned (hadn’t thought of that!).”
Perhaps you haven’t hosted as many potlucks as I have?
ah, do NOT pack up your own stuff to take home! you brought it, it stays. so please wait for the host to offer. or ask the host if you can help him or her clean up. good hosts often offer to split things up.
I disagree, Lauren. If the cooking was equally divided, why do the hosts deserve all the spoils (which they may have a hard time finishing)? When you wrote “you brought it,” I thought the next part would be ‘you take it.’ Now THAT would make sense to me.
Now–if you bring one dish to someone’s house and they do most of the cooking, I’d agree with you. But at a potluck–no way.