What if I told you our food waste represents 2 percent of our national energy use? And then what if I told you that figure was based on the prehistoric (OK, mid 90s) figure that we waste 27 percent of our food? Is that something that might interest you?
The above tidbits come from a recent [...]

The Guardian ran an excellent piece on U.S. food waste yesterday. And I’m not just saying that because I spoke with its writer and am mentioned in it briefly.
The article does a nice job summarizing the problem of food waste while explaining why it matters. I wasn’t surprised, as I had a great chat with [...]

Ethan Gibble is a content specialist and blogger for the WebstaurantStore.com. He researches and writes about issues facing the restaurant industry on a local, national, and global scale. Here are his two, or 10, cents:
The cost of food is steadily rising and, according to bread.org, 1.02 billion people went hungry in 2009 alone. [...]

OK, so only one of these countries is in the actual tournament (England, part of the UK, which fields four teams). I’ve still got World Cup fever. Here goes…
From Finland: A new group called FOODSPILL is examining how much herring food is wasted in the Nordic nation. Cool name and early estimate is 25 to 50 percent.
Shot on goal.
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Without many book tasks left, I’ve gone all Facebook and started a page for this here blog. As you super-observant visitors will have noticed, I have a link to it on the sidebar. I humbly ask for your official FB “thumbs up.”
Who knows, I might just do a little raffle next week for all those [...]

Ample Harvest is an awesome site that links gardeners with too much stuff to food pantries. Its founder, Gary Oppenheimer, was profiled as a CNN Hero. Rightly so! (But I’m having a hard time imagining recipients of fresh horseradish , as in the video, getting too jazzed.)
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Here’s a radio interview with Laura Wright, who [...]

Once I finish going through the endless vital copy edits on my book manuscript this week, I’m headed to Stanford to give a talk on Thursday. (And I’m bringing my son, just for the sake of this post’s title). 
I’ll be speaking about food waste in America, my work and my updcoming book, in addition to denigrating all things [...]

In case you were wondering, here’s what Almeda County, i.e. Oakland, thinks about food scrap recycling
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According to this piece from Australia, one-third of Queensland bananas are graded out because they don’t meet supermarkets’ specifications. Crikey!
Words of wisdom, from Australia’s head banana man:
“I think perhaps years ago when most Australians had some direct connection to [...]

Since the buffet was closed on Friday and I had a few things I wanted to pass along, how about an ever-so-rare Monday Buffet? Here goes:
Wednesday’s Feeding the 5000 event prompted a nice editorial (not an op-ed!) in The Guardian about reducing food waste. While it’s not a surprise to see the liberal-ish paper take [...]

There’s a relatively new documentary on dumpster diving called, appropriately, Dive. Based on the trailer, I’m excited. Here, check it out:

Has anyone seen this film? There are some upcoming screenings in California and Texas. Unfortunately, it’s not on Netflix, but you can buy the DVD from the site.