About this item
Despite a growing awareness of food waste, many well-intentioned home cooks lack the tools to change their habits. This handbook - packed with engaging checklists, simple recipes, practical strategies, and educational infographics - is the ultimate tool for reducing food waste. From a scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council come these everyday techniques that call for minimal adjustments of habit, from shopping, portioning, and using a refrigerator properly to simple preservation methods including freezing, pickling, and cellaring. At once a good read and a go-to reference, this handy guide is chock-full of helpful facts and tips, including 20 "use-it-up" recipes and a substantial directory of common foods.
About the Author
Dana loves food and utterly despises seeing it going to waste. She is a Senior Scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and one of the first to bring to light just how much food is wasted across the country through her 2012 report, Wasted: How America is Losing Up to 40% of Its Food from Farm to Fork to Landfill. Dana's work to reduce food waste has been featured on Dr. Oz, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, CNN, NBC, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Fox Business, NPR, and many other outlets. She now works with policymakers, food companies, foundations, and local governments and leads NRDC's food waste team.
Along the way, she realized a key reason people waste food is that they don't have the right knowledge at their fingertips. Thus was born the Waste-Free Kitchen Handbook.
