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It's estimated that in the United States we waste up to 40 percent of our entire food supply; that equals out to about 150,000 tons of food being wasted each day. And food waste isn¡¯t just an American problem, it¡¯s a global epidemic. Mads Refslund and Tama Matsuoka Wong are doing their best to combat the issue by using the toss-away parts of food into ingredients with a new purpose. Mads is a Danish chef and a pioneer of New Nordic cuisine, possibly best known as the cofounder of noma in Copenhagen. Tama is a forager, weed eater and home cook who graduated from Harvard law school. Together, they wrote Scraps, Wilt and Weeds: Turning Wasted Food into Plenty. Contributor Melissa Clark spoke with both of them about their approach to ¡®trash cooking.¡¯ She also got their recipe for?Seared Romaine Lettuce Bottoms,?Coffee Grounds PannaCotta and?Coffee Grounds Biscotti.
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Broadcast dates for this episode:
April 9, 2019