Chef Camilla Marcus opened the first zero-waste certified restaurant in NYC in 2018. Though it shut down during the pandemic, she’s bringing the vision of that restaurant to an online food business by ...

Those crinkly plastic cartons are so much more than just a single-use receptacle for storing your favorite fruit.

Imagine buying three gallons of milk at the store, driving home and pouring one of them down the sink. Or ordering three pizzas, then just dumping one of them into the garbage can. That’s not just a ...

In typical commercial kitchens, chefs plan detailed menus way ahead of time, and their food deliveries fulfill those specific menus’ needs. But one Pittsburgh-area kitchen is flipping that system, ...

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Tracking food waste can save you hundreds — maybe even thousands — of dollars a year. Here are some expert tips for how to eat what you buy and buy only what you will eat. Three-quarters of a red ...

Zero waste doesn’t mean zero taste, if you ask these top chefs. A dozen of New York City’s most celebrated restaurants and bars have accepted the challenge to produce no food waste for an entire week ...

Second Harvest Food Bank in Irvine used to budget $100,000 a year to buy cardboard boxes. Those boxes helped transport food between donation centers, their facilities and the more than 300 sites ...

The agriculture supply chain involves three steps: from farm to silo, from silo to transformation plant, and from there to the consumer. An estimated 30% of the food produced for human consumption is ...

Once upon a time, caught in the Bermuda Triangle of conscience, social media, and a love of pretty things, I thought it was possible to have a house and a domestic philosophy that held beauty, order, ...

Restaurants and grocery stores will be required to donate food they don’t use to food pantries or turn it into compost instead of throwing it in the dumpster under one of several of Gainesville's new ...

This episode focuses on wasting less space by implementing a landscaping & gardening method called foodscaping. This is when you plant vegetables, herbs, & fruit, in between flowers & shrubs, and can ...