City Harvest‘s new PSA highlights food waste in New York.
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Wednesday, February 3, 2010City Harvest
Friday, July 10, 2009Now I know a blog is no place for fundraising, but I wanted to share a free way to give money to an amazing organization whose mission is fully in line with that of everydaytrash.com. City Harvest, New York City’s premiere food rescue organization, gets $5 for every new Facebook fan to join their page by Tuesday.
Every pound of food City Harvest distributes is a pound of would-be-trash averted. Click here to help rescue food from restaurants and make sure it gets to hungry families.
Turkey trash
Thursday, December 4, 2008
A very friendly coworker brought me some sweet potato pie today. Traveling with my dad and sister for Thanksgiving was fun, but I have to admit I missed all the traditional foods. Especially the pie. I was kind of surprised at first that she still had pie, a full week later. But when I think about it, nearly every family I know makes huge meals for Thanksgiving and the leftovers are just as much a part of the ritual as the meal itself. Jonathan Bloom over at Wasted Food wrote about this on nytimes.com before the holiday and today responded to some of the questions generated by readers.
One of the topics discussed is food rescue, or restaurants that donate left over food to the hungry. New York is home to one of the best food rescue programs in the world, City Harvest. This reminds me that I’ve been meaning to post more about their incredible work. I heard a rumor that the City Harvest founders got the idea for their nonprofit after ordering potato skins at a restaurant and learning that the rest of the potato ended up in the trash. I’ll see if I can verify that for you before the New Year.
Turkey photo via igourmet.com
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