![]() ![]() It has helpful recipes to help you figure out how to use up leftovers or food you don't know how to use up, as well as a forty page directory on storing common food items. So, Waste-Free Kitchen Handbook is right up my alley. Plus, I am extremely frugal (my mother uses the word "miserly"), and money wasted in this manner makes me head-spinningly, green-pea-soup-hurlingly angry. But food waste? There's no good in food waste. I even believe that, used VERY sparingly, herbicides, pesticides, fungicides, and fertilizers can actually be better for the environment by allowing for more intensive agriculture so we don't have to use as much water or cut down as many rainforests, plow under as many prairies, or convert as many wetlands to grow food (not antibiotics though, because I don't want to die of drug resistant salmonella, thankyouverymuch). I think the whole thing about GMOs has the same scientific basis as the antivax movement - that is to say, none. Look, I am a tree hugger, and the fact that my tiny little borough does not recycle has prompted me to look at other ways to be more environmentally conscious, including by cutting back on food waste, but I am not enough of an environmentalist that I bother with organic. That's higher food prices through artificially inflated demand, which hurt all of us, but especially the most vulnerable. That's greenhouse gas emissions (according to author Dana Gunders, it's equivalent to the emissions of 33 million passenger vehicles), fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides, antibiotics, and hormones used - all for nothing. That's, on average, $120 per month for a family of four, thrown away. At the time this book was published (2015), 40% of the food that was produced in the United States was being thrown away. Retrieved 1 November 2021.Did you know that sour milk is safe to use? Or that potatoes that have gone a little soft are fine, but once they've started sprouting shoots, they are toxic? Or the right way to stock your fridge so as to maximize the freshness of the food contained therein? I did not, until I read Waste Free Kitchen Handbook: A Guide to Eating Well and Saving Money by Wasting Less Food. De ratione libros cum profectu legendi libellus. Pro Quinto Roscio comoedo oratio,"The Speeches". New York: New York Review Books Classics.
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