Dan Barber

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Ugly fruits and vegetables have often been tossed aside as unfit for supermarket shelves. To fight food waste, a new store in Copenhagen stocks its shelves with food that is past its official expiration date or has aesthetic imperfections or damaged packaging. Jim Wilson/The New York Times

This is an article from Turning Points, a magazine that explores what critical moments from this year might mean for the year ahead.

Turning Point: France becomes the first country to outlaw food waste.

Not long ago, just before boarding a trans-Atlantic flight, I overheard a woman tell her friend that she had packed her own water bottle because she disliked wasting all the plastic bottles given out on planes. A few minutes later she was on the phone with another friend, explaining that she was on her way to Europe for the weekend to shop and relax.

Which got me thinking about food waste.…  Seguir leyendo »

Cooking, like farming, for all its down-home community spirit, is essentially a solitary craft. But lately it’s feeling more like a lonely burden. Finding guilt-free food for our menus — food that’s clean, green and humane — is about as easy as securing a housing loan. And we’re suddenly paying more — 75 percent more in the last six years — to stock our pantries. Around the world, from Cairo to Port-au-Prince, increases in food prices have governments facing riots born of shortages and hunger. It’s enough to make you want to toss in the toque.

But here’s the good news: if you’re a chef, or an eater who cares about where your food comes from (and there are a lot of you out there), we can have a hand in making food for the future downright delicious.…  Seguir leyendo »