Can Chefs help reduce food waste?

Though most professional chefs are passionate about feeding people, the world needs more chefs that are just as excited about ending hunger. Anyone in food service knows that a huge amount of food gets wasted between the delivery dock and the customer's plate. If you need further proof, the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations commissioned a study that found that about "one third of the food that gets produced in the world for human consumption…is lost or wasted" and this number rises to almost one half in the United States. Ending food waste is one of the ways chefs can battle hunger.

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