Tristram Stuart Quotes Archive

This is a collection of quotes about food from Tristram Stuart.

Posted April 26, 2020

“The job of uncovering the global food waste scandal started for me when I was 15 years old. I bought some pigs. I was living in Sussex. And I started to feed them in the most traditional and environmentally friendly way. I went to my school kitchen, and I said, ‘Give me the scraps that my school friends have turned their noses up at.'”

Tristram Stuart
Posted September 17, 2014

“In Japan, Taiwan and South Korea, the government in a matter of years has put a lot of energy behind recycling food waste as livestock feed. It’s environmentally friendly, it provides cheap livestock feed for the farmers in those parts of the world, and it avoids sending the food waste to landfill.”

Tristram Stuart
Posted August 12, 2014

“I simply believe food is too good to throw away – and Christmas leftovers can be a gastronomic opportunity for the well-skilled kitchen forager. With a little imagination, there are a million ways to use up leftovers rather than bin them.”

Tristram Stuart
Posted June 12, 2014

“A country like America has twice as much food on its shop shelves and in its restaurants than is actually required to feed the American people.”

Tristram Stuart
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