Category: Good food for you for free

The pineapple grill recipe

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We’ll show you how to make this pineapple barbecue recipe together with children at the lake: Come to the

Vegan Open-Air BBQ & Potluck presented by VGS & vegan kitchen

Info about the Vegan Open-Air Potluck, yeah!

We meet again for a cozy vegan barbecue, eating & chilling by the lake.

The event will be announced on Facebook and vegan.ch by 18:00 the evening before.

Everyone brings something to eat or drink for themselves and about 4 others. Cutlery, plates etc. ….

Date:

Sunday June 26 12:00-16:00

(Alternative date Sunday July 10, 12:00-16:00)

Location:

Next to the Rote Fabrik or GZ Wollishofen, by the large meadow with steps to the lake where we will set up the buffet and barbecue.

 

Your hosts

Lauren (vegan kitchen) & Rafi (President of the Vegan Society)

 

 

good food for you for free at Tonigläsi

By offering free food, Nicole Frei, Helen de Matos, Claudia Marolf, Manuela Benz and Lauren Wildbolz extend the communal moment of eating and cooking to the visitors. The project group cooks scenographically and from freshly dipped food that has ended up in containers due to its expiration date. This time they were invited to the creative City Fest in the Toni Areal of the Zurich University of the Arts, there were aperitifs in 400 clay jars, from sweet to savory, there was no lack of variety that they made from food waste. Here are a few impressions of the event:

 

 

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Good food for you for free at the Hilde an der Sihl

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Letze Woche vom Montag bis Samstag wurde im La Perla Mode an der Langstrasse täglich für 40 Personen frisch aus dem Müll “gourmet-mässig” gekocht. GOOD FOOD FOR YOU FOR FREE, das Langzeitprojekt von Lauren Wildbolz wächst und wächst. 2015 ist wird nun eine Europa Tournee geplant.

IMG_7753 IMG_7756 IMG_7757Einen ganz herzlichen Dank an die Auftraggeber von Hilde an der Sihl, dem Austauch-Theaterfestival und auch Dobby, meiner Helferin die mit Tat und Kraft täglich pünktlich auf der Matte stand.

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BANKET WITHOUT LABEL by Anja Baggenstos

On June 29, in Sarnen, four courses were cooked fresh from the garbage to celebrate Anja Baggensto’s master’s thesis.

She called her project “Banquet without etiquette” and completed her Master’s degree in Fine Arts at the Lucerne School of Art with this work.

 

Just two weeks before that, Good food for you for free was still in full swing as a bachelor’s thesis for the Fine Arts course at the Zurich University of the Arts, which we reported on here.

When Anja heard about our work a month earlier, she sent us an invitation to the banquet without etiquette:

We made our way to Sarnen to enjoy a fantastic meal, fresh from the garbage.

 

For starters, guests could choose between apple celery asparagus and mushroom soup.

All three were delicious.

The second course was this colorful, delicious salad:

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The main course was a perfectly spiced vegetable curry, which was accompanied by an opening speech by Rahel Grunder.

Rahel studies together with Anja in the same degree program.

At my request, I have just received the entire speech she gave that evening!

->Please click into the text to read:

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Picture: Rahel Grunder & her brilliant speech

 

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The wine was drunk from cut open wine bottles!

 

 

Music from the trash:

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The “Güsel Orchestra” was the highlight of the evening and played for us after the first three courses, you can find a short video clip of the performance here.

(Video lasts 1 minute, from second 35 it gets really cool!)

 

 

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…Afterwards we had a very tasty dessert:

Apple cake with vanilla sauce served with rhubarb compote and the finest selected berries.

This was accompanied by a Knoppers triangle & apricot lentil slices,

This little masterpiece was served on real bathroom tiles!

 

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If you feel like reliving all the impressions of the evening on video, you’ll find them here.

By the way, there is now the Tash Wiki, where you can enter your secret places of discarded food or find some, here is the link.

 

 

 

THANK YOU Nicole Frei, Manuela Benz, Helen Schläpfer, Claudia Marolf, Anita Spang, Antje Matthes, Katja Zimmermann, Nemi Gajic, Patty Maio, Kristine Herzog, my lecturer Franziska Koch, Tobi from Tier im Fokus, Robin from Biosumo, Ruth and Roger from Biogärtnerei Birchhof, Oliver from Chornladen im Kreis 5, Bachsermärt in the Markthalle, Mrs. Baumann from ZHdK Mensa, all 2&4 students of fine arts who helped at the bar, all my friends who believe in me and my Nana who always wanted me to graduate..

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-> the good food for you for free is an ongoing project until the 13th of june 2013.

-> the concept can be adapted.

daily good cooked food, fresh from the dumpster, will be provided free monday to friday from 12 to 2.

all are welcome!

 

 

 

 

Good food for you for free at the Z+ Showroom at the ZHdK

A big thank you at this point to my two super helpers Patty and Salome: you are the best!

If you would like to get a taste of fresh, free food from the trash in the future, reserve a day between May 31 & June 13, 2013, when Pfingsweidstrasse 6 on the 3rd floor will be cooking and serving free food for a whole two weeks. More information on this soon here on the blog.

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Half a year has passed since we first reported on container/dumster diving here on our blog. TeleTop accompanied our Patty in a series of reports on the subject of food waste, you can watch the whole program here.

In the meantime, as part of the Experimental Social Cooking Workshop, we offered a Dumstertour followed by a creative 3-course cooking session. Our blog reported on this here .

On March 1, the vegan kitchen was invited to an art exhibition together with other interdisciplinary projects as part of the Z+ Showroom at the Zurich University of the Arts. The “good food for you for free” pilot project was presented:

In the end, we had distributed around 100 portions of polenta with green spelt & vegetables, lettuce with radishes and lots of bananas and mandarins live on site – everyone had enjoyed it!

Bon appetit.

The global food waste scandal – Tristram Stuart in the Ted & the young Greens

 

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Numerous studies and investigations have shown that food waste is constantly increasing. This mainly takes place at three points: Firstly, by sorting out so-called ‘non-recyclable’ products, such as second-class vegetables[1], when they are handed over from producers to wholesalers. Secondly, products and food that are left behind in the supermarkets in the evening. What cannot be sold the next day is normally disposed of in containers[2]. Thirdly, among consumers, where a lot of food is thrown away, not least because of expired best-before dates[3].



[1 ] Second-class vegetables are vegetables that do not correspond to the standard sizes of large-scale distributors. Decisive factors are, for example, the size, curvature, color and shape of products that do not meet the standard and are therefore not sold or are taken over by the producer. The same or similar regulations also apply to fruit, eggs and other agricultural products.

[2 ] Some of the unsold food is passed on to organizations such as ‘Tischleindeckdich’ at a discount or recycled, but a large proportion is disposed of or processed into biogas.

[3 ] However, expired best-before dates do not mean that the food is actually no longer usable, e.g. in the case of information such as ‘best before’ or a greatly increased range between the ‘real’ expiration date and the (‘guaranteed’) date stated on the products.

 

Tristram Stuart: The global food waste scandal

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Tristram Stuart and his family have been living off the garbage cans in England for over 20 years.

The vegan kitchen got the translation of Tristram Stuart’s book “For the garbage can, how we waste our food” here.

The Financial Times called his book “Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal” “one of the most important ecological books of recent years”.

Tristram Stuarts was invited to the Ted; his presentation is quite something, listen for yourself!

 

Foodwaste campaign: Good resolutions for the new year

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The Young Green Party also made food waste a topic in 2013, take a look for yourself here.

 

& even more* on the topic

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*After its superficial article last Sunday (Die Müllschlucker), the NZZ has published an in-depth article online.

Click here for the full article.

 

*The documentary film “Tast the wast” was shown at the Riff Raff cinema; the book to accompany the film has now also been published, more information here.

 

*Fresh on the garbage” Part 4 – On the road with the garbage divers :Tele Top brought a detailed 5-part report on food waste, our Patty was there, here is the online video (from minute 6:00, the webpage is not very clear, fast forward is not possible).

 

*At the third experimental social cooking workshop, the vegan kitchen, together with interested participants, was containerizing itself: You can find our blog post here.

 

The Experimental Social Cooking Workshop Part 3

 

Three course menue from the 6th of febuary at OG9:

 

Appatizer:

Quinoa salad assorted with onions, tomatos, red-, green- and yellow- peperoni and steamed beans

 

Main Course:

Broccoli soup with home-made rosmary croutons and one slice of broccoli in beer-dough

 

Dessert:

Friut salad assorted with banana, grapes, appel, orange, mandarin, freh peppermint- leaves and vanilla

topped with home-made banana ice cream

 

25 people prepared this creative three-course meal from containerized delicacies on the evening of 6 February in OG 9. It’s incredible what can be found in the “backyard” of many large supermarkets.

The topic of food waste has been on the vegan kitchen’s agenda for some time now. On March 1, the free restaurant “good food for you, for free” will be presented for the first time for one day as part of the Z+ event at Zurich University of the Arts.

From May 31, as part of the Zurich University of the Arts graduation exhibition, there will be a two-week exhibition on the 3rd floor of Pfingstweidstrase 6.

“good food for you, for free” is served, all from containerized food from supermarkets in the Zurich area.

 

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