The New Yorker:

How to host a dinner party for nine using a pre-trash haul from Too Good to Go and other food-waste apps. Tip: don’t invite the carb-averse.

By Patricia Marx

“This is shockingly delicious,” a pulmonologist friend and guest at a potluck dinner I hosted a few weeks ago said, as she lifted a third forkful to her mouth. “I’ve never seen anything like it. What is it?”

“Great question!” the comedy writer who’d brought the mystery entrée said. She poked at a striated, gray, pucklike object with a knife. “It looks like meat that archeologists discovered. It came from a food truck on Second Avenue, and it’s vegetarian.” Not much of a clue.

Eight friends and I had gathered that night to save the planet. We probably didn’t save it entirely, but there is a chance that we contributed infinitesimally less than we normally do toward the percentage of earth’s destruction that is caused by food waste. Everything on our dinner table had been obtained by my guests using apps that allow people to buy leftover food from markets, restaurants, bakeries, and other outlets at a discount—in other words, we mostly dined on pre-trash that would otherwise have been chucked. If you think that asking your friends to cater your dinner party seems as nervy as requiring that they bring a house to your housewarming, remember that it’s for a good cause.

Go to link