WASTED
Channel: CAM/MAC Anthropologie / Anthropology / U Ottawa
Date: 2019-11-27

Food is a huge connector for people all around the world, however we often forget to think about its life cycles and how high our standards are in regard to how food should look like. Wasted is a short ethnographic film focussing on Angeline, co-coordinator of an alternative food collective at the University of Ottawa, called People’s Republic of Delicious (PRD). Angeline talks about food waste and how through PRD, between 40 and 50 pounds of food is rescued every week from Herb and Spice, a grocery store on Bank Street, in Ottawa. Through her own experience in becoming aware of food waste and in getting involved in PRD’s food rescuing process, she speaks of perfectionism and how humans tend to have all-or-nothing perspectives, where in the world of food it often results in food waste. This short film is also about community and people from different backgrounds coming together to cook, share and express themselves creatively with the ingredients available to them at that moment in time. Finally, Wasted is about remembering that the journey is as important as the destination and every mindful efforts put into something will be fruitful in the end, in a way or another.  

By: Elyann Gilbert