Good Food
Fighting food waste and hunger at the same time
Food Forward is a Los Angeles-based non-profit fighting the dual epidemic of food waste and hunger. Rick Nahmias started Food Forward a decade ago when he stumbled over some fallen fruit in his own neighborhood.
By Evan Kleiman • • 1 min readFood Forward is a Los Angeles-based non-profit fighting the dual epidemic of food waste and hunger. Rick Nahmias started Food Forward a decade ago when he stumbled over some fallen fruit in his own neighborhood. Today the organization has grown to the point of rescuing more than 430,000 pounds of surplus produce each week.
Nahmias joined Good Food’s Evan Kleiman for a conversation looking back at the organization’s ten-year journey.
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The full episode
5 of 6Holiday tamales, a tuber revival, fighting food waste- 0:00For many Angelenos, tamales represent the holidays
- 6:18Paying homage to LA’s mole goddess
- 13:13An ancient tuber makes a comeback
- 24:26For California lemons, the future is seedless
- 33:04Fighting food waste and hunger at the same timeYou’re reading this
- 49:45Persimmons fans: Your time has come