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    Redefining Dumpster Diving: Two Filmmakers Find Mountains of Food Waste in Dumpsters

    Grant Baldwin and Jenny Rustemeyer take on a food-waste challenge in their documentary film Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story . The two filmmakers vowed to only eat food that was either found or unwanted. Rustemeyer describes the overwhelming abundance of unspoiled food they rescued during the making of the film.

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    By Evan Kleiman • Mar 27, 2015 • 1 min read

    Grant Baldwin and Jenny Rustemeyer take on a food-waste challenge in their documentary film Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story. The two filmmakers vowed to only eat food that was either found or unwanted. Rustemeyer describes the overwhelming abundance of unspoiled food they rescued during the making of the film.

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      Evan Kleiman

      host 'Good Food'

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      Gillian Ferguson

      Supervising Producer, Good Food

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      Laryl Garcia

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      CultureFood & Drink

    The full episode

    4 of 7
    Best Barbacoa in LA, Vegetarian for Passover, FUDS: A Complete Ency-clo-foodia
    1. 0:00FUDS: A Complete Ency-clo-foodia from Tickling Shrimp to Not Dying in a Restaurant
    2. 7:42Jonathan Gold Reviews All'Acqua
    3. 14:30Vilna Vegetarian: A Vegetarian Jewish Cookbook Ahead of Its Time
    4. 23:11Redefining Dumpster Diving: Two Filmmakers Find Mountains of Food Waste in Dumpsters You’re reading this
    5. 33:47How Millennials Are Reshaping the Grocery Aisle
    6. 42:36Taco Round-Up: The Best Barbacoa in LA
    7. 50:31Market Report
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