I was recently in Tel Aviv when the Slow Food Youth Network Israel put on their Disco Shuk, an incredible seaside disco party that turns perfectly fine dumpster-bound food into a communal feast. The experience inspired me to write about the Disco Soup movement around the globe for The Culture-ist.
When you think of food headed to the dump, the first thing that pops into your mind probably isn’t disco music. Yet the Slow Food Youth Movement thinks it’s the perfect pairing. Their global initiative Disco Soup brings local communities together to dance to disco while cooking up free food for the community using ingredients that would have otherwise been trashed.
At the Disco Soup events, large quantities of food are sourced from local farms and markets and prepared and distributed for free to the public to raise community awareness of how much good food goes to waste each day. On World Food Day, slow food partners collaborated with Disco Soup for a large-scale Disco Anti-Food Waste Day with events in Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Greece, Germany, Japan, Macedonia and Bulgaria, among others.
From the Disco Xepa in Brazil to Disco Barsauk in Kazakhstan, people around the world are gathering with pots, pans, and disco beats to show the importance of global food waste…Continue reading about Disco Soup on The Culture-ist.
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