The Low-Waste Kitchen

Most food waste is decided long before anything reaches the bin: in the shop, in the fridge drawer, in the pot that made too much. This book gives you a practical system for cutting it down without turning cooking into a chore. You will audit what you really throw away, build a flexible shopping plan, store food so it lasts longer, and learn what date labels and food-safety limits actually mean. Then you put leftovers and scraps to work with recipes that give quantities, times and numbered steps, from vegetable stock and stale-bread dishes to fried rice, fish cakes and banana loaf. A freezer chapter and a weekly routine tie it together, with a quick reference to keep by the fridge.

Imad Muratspahic is an independent author of practical how-to guides, technical handbooks, history and fiction. The books aim to be clear, honest and useful from the first page.