An entertainment road movie that will blow “food crisis” away”!
A third of all the food produced goes to waste each year instead of feeding someone. It weighs 1.3 billion tons each year worldwide. “Let’s save food that is going to be dumped and make the gleanings into delicious dishes!”. It is a cheerful and tasty “food featuring” road trip that David, a food stuff rescuer, makes around five countries in Europe.

Kids are dying of hunger in developing countries at this same moment.
We, however, waste a third of food globally. Japan, the country of “Mottainai (being aware of and trying to avoid wastefulness)” concept ranks one of the worst in food waste ratio in the world.
The movie “0 Yen Kitchen (Wastecooking)” tries to solve this insane reality creatively with humor. I’m totally in love with it.
I would even say that I’m totally charmed by David, who is the main character of the movie “the food stuff rescuer”, the director, and a journalist.
David faces the reality of totally unreasonable food waste while he travels through major European countries in a car that runs with kitchen waste oil. The car pulls a dumpster turned to a kitchen.
He, however, is encouraged to find solutions on the road as he meets some positive and hip activists and entrepreneurs, chefs and politicians, and some wise persons who keep traditional cooking techniques to make no waste from food.
He finds that towns are full of free food such as edible plants in forests, fruits in parks, expired food in people’s freezers, and fresh food dumped at the back of restaurants and supermarkets.
As my low consumption life in New Zealand is based on the supplies from forest and water area around the house, my own organic vegetable garden and bartering in the community, there are many scenes that I almost shouted “Yeah, that’s it!”.
I’d love as many Japanese as possible to watch this movie.
Daisuke YOSUMI (practitioner of forest life, writer)
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▽Movie “0 Yen Kitchen (Wastecooking)”, Friday Dec. 1, DVD to be on sale!
http://unitedpeople.jp/wastecooking/