Waste not want not: how to cook with not-so-fresh food

Published: March 14, 2021, 10:38 p.m.

We're all guilty of throwing out stuff in the fridge that's gone to waste - but when you add it up, Kiwis are chucking out over 157-thousand tonnes of food a year. Sarah Burtscher describes herself as a home cook, but has run restaurants in Christchurch and Tekapo. She's just published a book that looks at the top 10 foods we tend to waste and pairs them with yummy recipes to save them instead, including Forgotten vegetable soup and Easter spiced whole orange cake.