[Sca-cooks] RE: Bread as Art-OT OP

[Bronwynmgn at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/26/2005 10:52:07 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
jmknoppe at hotmail.com writes:

<<This kinda leads into my question.  What do you all do  with leftover food 
from Feasts?  A group that I played with would take  the leftovers that had 
not ever gone out to tables to the local homeless  shelter.  As long as the 
food had been cooked and delivered within a  certain time period, they would 
accept it.  Does anyone else do  this?>>
 
I wish we could.  The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, where I live,  allows 
only donations of unopened food packages to soup kitchens, homeless  shelters, 
etc.  They absolutely will not take cooked food.
We try to keep leftovers to a minimum, and provide storage containers  
(usually ziplock bags) for the populace to take leftovers home with them.   On more 
than one occasion I've come home from a feast with the makings of  several 
more meals.  But an awful lot still gets thrown out.
 
My least favorite waste of foodstuffs occurs every year at the Pennsylvania  
Farm Show, where they turn several thousand pounds of perfectly good butter 
into  a sculpture every year.  It's a highlight of the show.
 
Brangwayna