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UPCYCLED Trends-Food, Wraps

 Upcycled ingredients-re-purposed for eating-is common amongst professional chefs and everyday home cooks. That means -for example, taking parts of fruits/vegetables that were usually tossed-like stalks, cores, peels-and using them to make other eats-soups, purées etc. A new(ish) standout: Brooklyn based- RISE Craft Flour -is a byproduct of nearby beer making (makers)...using the spent grains from breweries (byproduct of the first stage of beer making=malt barley) as the base of a true versatile flour that's naturally high in fiber/protein and less carbs-than the regular kind. VERY COOL Available ONLINE RISE Craft Flour can be used interchangeably as flour in recipes-like pizza+ pie crusts, crackers and sweets. The dark flour-comes courtesy of stout, fyi-great for brownies. The light version -from IPA and Pilsner. Recipes online.     Rejected Potato Produce: Kettle Cooked-non-GMO UGLIES Potato Chips...are crispy-greasy enough in a good way. Honestly sin...

NO! to Waste-YES! More Sustainable

Fancy Foods Show 2017 Trends Javits Center, NYC via GIPHY source rogersfamilyco.com It's not just K-Cups, disposable baby diapers, and discarded clothing that's filling up landfills... Repurposing what was formally known as food waste -is a big restaurant and industry trend. Kettle Cooked UGLIES -may not start as as beauty queens-with what the USDA calls cosmetic imperfections but these chips -taste as finger licking/addictive as 'regular' ole sourced ones. does are brown with brown spots-tiny ones but we didn't notice the difference in appearance at all.... Uglies Chips...made from rejected potato-several flavors including classic salt and vinegar+original sea salt...and above-mesquite BBQ Càboo paper products made from 100% Fast Growing sugarcane grasses (otherwise get discarded or burned) and renewable bamboo...feel /perform just like those from paper... is soft, and compost-able! ECO FYIs-both can grow in depleted soils with lit...