Our friends at WRAP just released a comprehensive study on UK food and drink waste throughout the supply chain. I know I sound like a broken record about WRAP, but the British semi-governmental agency keeps releasing important findings on waste. [Note: this research includes drink and packaging waste]
The study, which you can read in its [...]

My wife, son and I were invited to a Passover seder at our friends’ house and were tasked with bringing a dessert or two.
I flipped through a Passover cookbook and decided on chocolate macaroons. It only had five ingredients, and macaroons are always the best Passover dessert. The recipe called for 3 egg whites, coconut, ground almonds, some sugar and chocolate. Keep that in mind.
As I [...]

Don’t look now, but they’re at it again in the UK. On Thursday, WRAP announced an extension of an existing voluntary agreement to reduce packaging and food waste.
As of Thursday’s launch, 29 food retailers and producers had signed on to the second installment of the Courtauld Commitment. The first was signed in 2005 and involved more [...]

Here’s a fascinating preview of an article on home food waste that’s due out in the spring (sort of like the movie trailer of the magazine world!). Based on the online piece, I can’t wait to read the real thing.
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A comment on the above page led me to discover my new favorite Danish phrase: [...]

In a move that should surprise no one, Portland will test a household food waste pickup system in 2,000 homes come April. Great idea, great quote:
Portland’s solid waste and recycling manager, Bruce Walker, says, “We’re coming right into their kitchen saying, ‘Please change your habits.’ “
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Keep sandwich thieves away with these faux-mold bags. A [...]

The U.S. Capitol cafeteria has composted food for a bit, but now there’s plenty more eco-friendly changes in House office buildings. Since launching in 2007, Green the Capitol has diverted 75,000 pounds from landfills.
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I just heard about Hands for Hunger, a food recovery group in the Bahamas from this article. I’m not sure why [...]

Black-eyed peas are thought to be good luck, which might explain the band’s success. It definitely explains why the legumes are eaten through the South on New Year’s Day.
One theory–the one found on Wikipedia–posits that the tradition dates back to the Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashanah) and that Sephardic Jews brought the tradition with them to [...]

I’ve been excited to see the press that Kevin Hall et al’s study has received. You know, the one that found that America wastes 40 percent of its food.
It was featured in The Economist and then The New York Times “Idea of the Day” blog repeated the findings with a quote from the former.
They found [...]

A new study by a team of National Institute of Health researchers has some fascinating findings. After analyzing USDA and FAO data, the team of researchers found that US per capita food waste has increased by 50 percent since 1974. More interesting, they found that we now waste 40 percent of our available food supply.
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If I was going to make a short video summing up the problem of wasted food, it’d look something like this. Good did a great job of illuminating the problem and then suggesting ideas on how to take action.

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Speaking of taking action, with Thanksgiving upon us, I just wanted to add a few reminders [...]