Host David Crowley from Cooking Chat talks with Erin Baumgartner, Co-Founder and CEO of Family Dinner, about how this farmers' market delivery service brings great local food to customer's homes. Erin describes how this company seeks to reimagine America's food system, creating efficiencies that reduce food waste while bringing high quality products from local farms and food purveyors to customers.
In this episode, we cover:
- The vision behind Family Dinner.
- Why the current food system generates so much food waste.
- How Family Dinner uses data to create more efficient connections between food producers and customers.
- Some examples of the products available through family dinner.
- Tips for finding great local food in your area.
- How the pandemic underscored the value of a strong local food system.
- Ideas for how to turn scraps of vegetables into a quick meal like a frittata, or to save them for making veggie stock.