Telegraph

Rising food prices: why it's time to love leftovers

Rising food prices, environmental anxiety and now the shocking statistics about Britain's domestic food waste - £10 billion a year and rising - have touched a public nerve. Gone, we are told, is the era of cheap food and a new era of thrift is upon us.' Which is all very well if you don't regularly throw away a half-eaten apple, an egg white and the end of yesterday's bread. But in a mere generation most of us have lost the knack of cooking with leftovers. (12/05) More