Dumpster Delights: One Man's Trash is Another Man's Dinner

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About Dumpster Delights: One Man's Trash is Another Man's Dinner

This group is dedicated to scrounging food, whether from dumpsters or wherever else you can find it... other than paid-for on-demand and making something more from it. Submit pictures of your scavenger activities, finds, drawings etc.

The main focus is for a Cook Book (or Crook Book) I am compiling. I'd love for your participation. And I would love for this to be an international affair! We can even try to coordinate multi-urban scavenger escapades. Please message me, if interested in contributing. See below:

Dumpster Delights: One Man’s Trash is Another Man’s Dinner

Call for Entries!

I am compiling recipes concocted with dumpster-dived ingredients. Of course, not all the ingredients have to be dived from the dumpster, but at least two to three major ingredients should be. The recipe can be traditional, or better yet, it can be an avant-garde, culinarily-sacrilege, albeit a palatable taste-bud extravaganza.

You can be an amateur or professional dumpster diver. In fact, you might not have even done it before. For that reason, I am planning a dumpster tour in the San Francisco and Berkeley areas. We will dive deep and explore the nocturnal nutrients that lie in wait for our hungry little bellies!

We all have appetites and there are different ways to fulfill them. We can have someone else prepare our food for a pretty penny, go to the grocery store and find exactly what we think we need and end up with a lot more, and/or you can sustain yourself or simply add to your sustenance by grazing on discarded wealth. You’d be amazed at how much decent food gets tossed continuously. Why let it go to waste, when you can eat it? And better yet, you can turn it into a culinary creation.

Cooking in general, whether with dumpster-dives or not should always be playful and open to experiment. Dumpster diving adds new elements to eating and cooking. It allows one to forgo specific demands and pre-determined tastes and let chance play a part in desire fulfillment. When you go to the grocery store, you fulfill specific demands and often are lured into others. When you dumpster dive, you end up with ingredients that you might never had thought to buy. These new ingredients prompt you to discover ways to use them and to whip-up edible dishes rather than waste.

In addition to getting to have fun in the kitchen, dumpster diving opens the doors to nocturnal novelty. When was the last time you went lurking back behind a dark alley or had to climb a fence stealthily? Ok, you might have to skip out on a few hours of sleep, or boozing it up at the bar, but it saves you a hectic trip to the grocery store and even leaves a few more buckaroos in your pocket.

If I have to convince you, dumpster diving probably isn’t for you. Though, I can assure you, this collaboration will be delicious!

Requirements: 2 to 3 ingredients from the dumpster
Recipe should be written in traditional form: Title, Ingredients and list explicit Directions.

I would like for you to include some artwork to accompany the recipes. For example, my friend did some crazy potato character drawings for his Potato Frita recipe. Artwork should be fun and some how related to the recipe. I’d also like to collect pictures from dumpster dives and include some photographs from our missions.

Format will be 5”x8.5
Each Person/ Entry will receive two pages
We will discuss other formatting issues, after we get to a point that we have enough entries.

Let’s dive and eat!