Marketwatch.com: 40% of U.S. food is never eaten

40% of U.S. food is never eaten

 

 

How composting could benefit pocketbooks and the environment

 As much as 40% of food goes uneaten in the U.S., according to estimates from the Department of Agriculture and the Environmental Protection Agency. Americans are, in other words, throwing out the equivalent of $165 billion in wasted food every year, according to a recent analysis by the Natural Resources Defense Council, a nonprofit environmental group. In fact, one study estimates, just 15% of wasted food would be enough to feed more than 25 million Americans every year. And one in six Americans currently lacks a secure supply of food, says Dana Gunders, an NRDC project scientist in San Francisco.

 

BEAT that HEAT - MANGO SALSA: Step by step from The OUTLAW CHEF

MESSIN' WITH MANGOS

Outlaw-Chef.com - The Outlaw Chef, Terry Chandler, Proud Proprietor of FRED'S TEXAS CAFE, prepares MANGO SALSA for the Central Market Cooking Class 

OUTLAW CHEF GETS ISLAND FEVER. Filmed at the Fort Worth Central Market on 2/24/2010. 

The menu includes:
* Wild Mushroom & Goat Cheese Quesadilla Appetizer with Guacamole
* Corn Meal Encrusted Red Snapper with Mango Salsa
* Central American Red Beans & Poblano Rice
* Sage-Honey Flan

When it RAINS, it's HAPPY HOUR at FRED'S!

Raining? That Means It Is HAPPY HOUR at FRED'S!