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Author(s): Bloom, Jonathan
ISBN(s): 9780738215624, 0738215627
Edition: 1st Da Capo Press pbk. ed
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Year: 2011
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ISBN 10: 0738215627 
ISBN 13: 9780738215624
Author: Jonathan Bloom

What Tom Vanderbilt did for traffic and Brian Wansink did for mindless eating, Jonathan Bloom does for food waste. The topic couldn’t be timelier: As more people are going hungry while simultaneously more people are morbidly obese, American Wasteland sheds light on the history, culture, and mindset of waste while exploring the parallel eco-friendly and sustainable-food movements. As the era of unprecedented prosperity comes to an end, it’s time to reexamine our culture of excess. Working at both a local grocery store and a major fast food chain and volunteering with a food recovery group, Bloom also interviews experts—from Brian Wansink to Alice Waters to Nobel Prize–winning economist Amartya Sen—and digs up not only why and how we waste, but, more importantly, what we can do to change our ways.

American wasteland how America throws away nearly half of its food and what we can do about it 1st Table of contents:

chapter 1 – Waste from Farm to Fork
Salad Days
Our Stretched Food Chain
A Numbers Problem
Looking Ahead
chapter 2 – Does Food Waste Really Matter? Why You Should Care
Burying a Problem
Methane Mishegas
Landfull
Squandered Resources
Down the Drain
Hauling (Is a) Waste
Tightening the Belt
Waste Adds Up
The Triple Bottom Line on Waste
Discarded Morals
On Ethics
Getting Biblical with It
A Final Thought
chapter 3 – The Disgrace of Plenty: The Coexistence of Hunger and Food Waste
Hunger in America: Then and Now
Roy and Diane’s Story
The Root of the Problem: Distribution
Redistributing Our Plenty
The Federal Food-Recovery Guy
Guerrilla Giving: Redistributing Food, One Plate at a Time
A Simple Plan
chapter 4 – A Culture of Waste: Our Fall from Thrift and Our Imminent Return
School Squanderings
Food’s Roots—Beyond the Supermarket
A Culture of Abundance
Lost Foodways
Bigger Is Better
Area and Volume
Time Is Money
Forming a Culture of Thrift
The Written Record: Cookbooks
The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Different Generations
Pass It Down
A Return to Thrift
A Cultural Shift
For the Dogs: Leftover Culture
chapter 5 – American Farms: Growing Waste, Selling Perfection
Cucumbers: The Straight and Narrow
The Big Picture
Perfect Enough to Eat
The Enormity of Unif ormity
Size Matters
Left Hanging
Available Hands Less Available
Major League Mechanization
To Pick or Not to Pick
What Commodity of Commodity Crops?
On-the-Farm Processing
chapter 6 – Waste on the Menu
Setting the Table
Fast Food, Faster Waste
Preconsumer Kitchen Waste
Plate Waste Aplenty
Unclaimed Remains
Out of Proportion
A Packed Restaurant (Landscape)
A Small Idea
Downsizing
Servings Sized Up
Which Came First—the Portions or the Plates?
All You Can Waste
All Items at All Times
A Different Approach
Left with Options
Menus à la Minute
Leftover Logic
Kitchen Leftovers
chapter 7 – A Cold Case of Waste
Donning the Apron
The Produce Pageant
Picky, Picky
The Pornography of Perfect Food
Shopping Psychology
Oopsy Dairy
Just Another Commodity
Confuse-By Dates
Expiration Exasperation
Bundling Waste
Judging a Food by Its Cover
Haste-Based Waste
The Cost of Convenience
’Round and ’Round
When Life Gives You Old Chickens . . .
Wasted Dough, Bread
Don’t Hate, Get Stores to Donate
What You Can Do
Check Out
chapter 8 – Home Is Where the Waste Is
Taking a Step Back
Another Step Back—The Big Picture
Out of Sight, Out of Mind
Stuffed
Shopping Begets Waste
Delayed Waste and Unfamiliar Diets
Kitchen Smarts
Strategic Shopping
Once We Get It Home
Worst-Case Scenario
Unaware of Waste
chapter 9 – The Obstacles and Art of Food Recovery
What the Heck Is Food Rescue?
Retail Food Recovery
An Irrational Fear
A Crack in the Wall
The Foods That Are and Are Not Given
A Bevy of Baked Goods
Rural Recovery
Picking the Remains
Recoverable Food: It Grows on Trees
Sweet Endings
chapter 10 – From Traylessness to Demand Tracking: Ideas and Innovations to …
The Case for Traylessness
The Old College Tray
Cafeteria Conflict
The Green Path
Cloudy with a Chance of Waste
Scrounging Up a Meal
Delicious Participation
Barely Tolerated Behavior
Off-Campus Scrounging
Dumpsters of Plenty
Rechanneling Food
In Digestion We Trust
chapter 11 – Great, Britain! A Kingdom United in Hating Waste
Numbers Game
Super Markets
Going Anaerobic
BioBags, Badgers, and a Box of Condoms
A Labour of Love
Ready to Recover
Action on Expiration Dates
Bringing It All Back Home
chapter 12 – If I Were the King of the Forest: Big Changes
A National Food-Waste Czar
Spreading the Word
Food Is Not Trash
Rolling Up Our Sleeves
Dream On
Why I’m Not Worried
How We’ll Know We’ve Succeeded
Acknowledgments

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