The CulinaryWoman Reading Room For Wednesday, August 2

A book to fight food waste

I have a horror of wasting food. It was probably drummed into me by my thrifty parents, who both lived through the Depression. I am sad to see statistics that contend 40 percent of all food in the United States is wasted.

According to Feeding America, 119 billion pounds of food go to waste annually here, equal to 30 billion meals. In all, more than $408…