2019 Workshops

Written By Julie Raskin

Cook smarter, with creative tips from fellow chefs. Savor tastes from delicious cuts or products that you might have never considered. See food waste recycling in action.

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Compost Site Tour
May 22
Compost Site Tour

Join us for a visit to New York City's largest organic waste processing site in Staten Island.

Part II: Building A Culture of Zero Food Waste
May 22
Part II: Building A Culture of Zero Food Waste

Participants will visit a large hospitality industry site to see best operating procedures in practice and truly roll up their sleeves for a mini waste audit.

Compost Site Tour
May 21
Compost Site Tour

Join us for a visit to New York City's largest organic waste processing site in Staten Island.

Seeing the Unseen: Using Culinary Innovation to Design Waste Out of the Food System
May 21
Seeing the Unseen: Using Culinary Innovation to Design Waste Out of the Food System

Everyone will get to taste the creations, share insights, and commit to specific actions they can take upon their return to their own kitchens.

Part I: Commercial Kitchen Design for Zero Food Waste
May 21
Part I: Commercial Kitchen Design for Zero Food Waste

Participants will leave the workshop armed with the experience to set their own zero waste goals and a community of fellow business owners committed to reducing food waste.

A Conscious Kitchen
May 20
A Conscious Kitchen

We'll go beyond the usual carrot top pesto, so you come away with concrete ideas for how you can realistically make practical changes to your day-to-day habits that will have a meaningful impact on the amount of waste you generate.

Compost Site Tour
May 20
Compost Site Tour

Join us for a visit to New York City's largest organic waste processing site in Staten Island.

From Fin to Tail: Cooking the Entire Fish
May 20
From Fin to Tail: Cooking the Entire Fish

Chef Bill Telepan, local and sustainable seafood sourcing champion, will lead the class in a hands-on workshop on butchering and breaking down a whole fish—and highlight creative uses of trim from fish in a professional kitchen.

Wasted! Screening & Director Q&A
May 16
Wasted! Screening & Director Q&A

WASTED! exposes the criminality of food waste and how it’s directly contributing to climate change and shows us how each of us can make small changes – all of them delicious – to solve one of the greatest problems of the 21st Century.

Generously supported by WeCare Organics.

Ticket Options

The Sanitation Foundation is committed to offering programming at reduced rates to enable access for our diverse community. Our mission to #endfoodwaste depends on participation from New Yorkers at every income level.

We are offering a discount for low income members of our community to attend the Food Waste Fair and participate in workshop programming. Please use code FWFACCESS to unlock reduced rate programming. We request that you consider circumstances beyond your income (ie., education, generational wealth, parental and community support, partnership status and other circumstances that may offer a safety net which allows more resilience when financial setbacks occur)* when choosing to apply this code to your purchase.

The Food Waste Fair Workshop Series and reduced rate programming is generously supported by WeCare Organics, a product of Denali Water Solutions.

*Thank you to the staff at Farm School NYC for this language.

Julie Raskin
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