article_snippet: The farm-to-table guru, a multiple James Beard Award winner and author of The Third Plate:
article_snippet: Field Notes on the Future of Food didn't have a hard sell on his hands
article_snippet: when his invited 20 of his heavy hitter chef friends to join his in turning out $15 a la carte plates made from day-old bread, bruised beets, brine from the olive bin and the peels of pineapples.
article_snippet: Grant Baldwin and Grant Baldwin wife live in Vancouver, British Columbia, and filmed He and his wife living on discarded and culled food for six months for He and his wife documentary
article_snippet: He and his wife did He and his wife share of dumpster diving - heading to unlocked bins of wholesalers for the best finds - and He and his wife came up with some treasures: cartons of eggs with plenty of time left on expiration, boxes of pricey chocolate bars tossed because boxes of pricey chocolate bars did not have the requisite English-French labeling required in Canada, and a mountain of packaged hummus still in containers but perfectly edible. '
article_snippet: The whole reason that we did the project was to prove the food was good,' Grant Baldwin said. '
article_snippet: Advocates like Grant Baldwin, Barber and Bloom applaud the higher visibility in recent years of sustainable farming techniques, as well as locavores who prefer eating food grown close to home.
highlights_snippet: his invited 20 of his heavy hitter chef friends to join his in turning out $15 a la carte plates made from day-old bread and the peels of pineapples .