My boyfriend Federico, a native of Italy, Milan, has been staying here for 10 years because she has been working in Australia and has been to Melbourne, australia.
When I first came here, I was born stranger, and lived in a car with my friends for 10 months. My life was especially "Gypsy", and I gradually explored a set of "street survival rules"".
One of them is..:
Every Sunday to go to the market to pick up the fixed "rubbish", with these free ingredients to cook a big meal, a week of their reward hard work.
Street life experienced Federico (left) and Yaqu columnist Xi Xi (right)
Over the past ten years, job change, have a fixed residence, temporary farewell to the "Gypsy" life, but the experience he described has aroused my curiosity: some people really take food can eat just throw away? "
You know, we all grew up under the educational motto of "waste food, shame.".
According to the Huffington post, 1/3 of the food production in Australia, including farming and production, is wasted:
20% to 40% of the fruit was thrown away before it was put on shelves.
Every year, leftovers and rotting vegetables and fruits fill up with 450 thousand garbage trucks.
Annual food waste is equivalent to throwing 8 billion Australian dollars into the garbage can.
Data on food waste is shocking:
Only in Melbourne, producing 900 thousand tons of food waste each year, they not only sell expired, because not enough good-looking, brutally abandoned.
It's a world where fruits and vegetables depend on their value
This has spawned groups that rely on "junk" to survive. So this Sunday, I decided to "cross" and return ten years ago to a "street life" experience to see what kind of trash I could find now".
Why pick up the garbage?"
After the upgrade, the city's middle class would say, "anyway, it's your money, you're running for a higher quality of life, and waste a little bit. So what?" As long as it does not affect others, it is understandable. "
Garbage collection in Melbourne, a highly open and tolerant City, is not a disgrace
Only in the material life is extremely abundant, the upgrading of consumption in the teeth of the storm today, may not follow blindly, not to follow the so-called "what to buy", "list", save a little bit, a little bit simple, find their own things, maybe life will add some unexpected fun and novelty.
Where do I pick it up?
There is only one place in the city of Melbourne where these thrown away food, which is the Vitoria market, can be found. It is the largest open-air market in the southern hemisphere, the world's third large-scale open-air market, is also one of the world's most famous tourist attractions.
Melbourne Vitoria Market
Since the operation of 1857, is the only existing in the urban areas of the market in nineteenth Century, mainly to provide fresh food, seafood, meat, vegetables, fruit, and a grocery area, selling all kinds of cheap clothes and shoes and Made in China letter in hand.
All kinds of fresh and attractive vegetable stalls
Because the market has a large number of vegetables and fruit stalls, it has become the best place to pick up free food. But Federico told me that these vendors are now under pressure from the media to "waste ingredients" and that the fruits and vegetables thrown out are less blatant than they used to be.
Because of the recession, people are returning to frugal living. All these factors make to pick up the "junk" it is less "right and proper". But optimistic, we decided to try our luck.
What time do you want to go?
The best time to pick up "rubbish" in Vitoria market is Sunday afternoon. Citizens are accustomed to big purchases at this time, and each booth is stocked more frequently than usual.
And at 4-5 in the evening, it's time for people to finish their shopping and get ready for dinner. It's also the time for the market to close, so they can find more abundant garbage".
Closing is the best time
How to pick up garbage?"
4, 5 o'clock in the evening, a lot of vegetables and fruit stalls have started to shut down. The seller is very serious about putting all kinds of junk into different bins.
Garbage cans are divided into two red and green, and only green trash cans that say "Organic Recycling" can throw away vegetables and fruits. So just aim at the green trash can and turn it on.
Fruits and vegetables look for green trash can
"But after all, ten years ago, ten years ago, people from the heart to help the poor, so do not Vegetable & Fruit on the paper box, so that people can choose what to eat, what can not be. "Federico flanging says.
This is not false, now open the trash can see all the ingredients are layered together, smells, didn't pick, because of the decay of the hybrid Vegetable & Fruit, plus the closed environment, accelerate their decay.
We checked several bins and basically had nothing to eat.
Although the fruits and vegetables are not good to pick up, the paper box can be taken at will
When I was a little discouraged, I found a good onion in a garbage bin and accompanied me with a few tomatoes that were just ripe. I quickly picked up an abandoned paper box at the alley to make it easier for me to pick up trash".
Tips:
Don't just stare at a channel, because shops are gradually shut down, is being thrown away can be shuttled to and fro Vegetable & Fruit, so the chance picked up to eat "junk" will increase.
Pick up "garbage", there are rivers and lakes
# first, many shops will put extra Vegetable & Fruit put on the back of the box, this does not mean that the stall has abandoned them, so I can't take any. It was found that "steal", embarrassed.
# secondly, people will pick Vegetable & Fruit scattered, some shopkeepers closed before picking up back, if you want to pick up from the ground, the owner agreed to require the consent of the beginning -- I don't know the rules, just squat down to pick up the apples on the stall, the owner was "eyes".
# finally, you will encounter a pick up "junk" counterparts, although there is competition, but also to say "in order of arrival". For example, he has been in for a trash, it must be he finished you can go, or look for.
Just past beggars like picking up trash, and rivers and lakes.
In 1.5 hours of search, investigation, screening and jianlouer, we finally filled with Vegetable & Fruit box, harvest are as follows:
Our trophies
Fruits
Apples, 2 oranges, 2 lemons, 1 plums, 1 bananas, 7 roots
Vegetables
Tomatoes, 8 cucumbers, 1 mushrooms, 6 potatoes, 5 small peppers, 3
Also
4 onions, 2 broccoli, 7 small Kale
Besides fruits and vegetables, what else can I pick up?
In Australia, many people buy new appliances, new furniture, a lot of things to put on the side of the road, let the people passing by "each one takes what he needs".
Someone will make a small box and write "All free". There are secondhand books, blankets, tableware and so on. In short, all the things you want to buy can be picked up on the side of the road.
Federico even told me, "if you keep picking things up on the back of the street, you can decorate your home in a month.". "
In his house, basically picked up, and did not feel any shame. Such as:
Sofa
At
A jar of broken beauty
A basket of fruits and vegetables
A salt and sugar coffee jar full of retro style
Federico comes with a small courtyard house, he was in a limited space for the often eat vegetables, for example, arugula, Rolle, mint, parsley, spinach, peas, so these natural organic free vegetables became the Michelin.
Junk food
The first was the design menu, staring at the contents of the box, and Federico prepared three courses:
Italian baked rice
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Ingredients: spore cabbage, spinach, broccoli, kale, chard, mushrooms, pesto, Italy rice.
Step:
1. stir fry the mushrooms with salt
2. garlic stir incense, into the spore cabbage, broccoli, kale, chard, stir a small fire
3. put in Italy meters
4. meters to be full of water, add homemade pesto, spinach and fried mushrooms with salt
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Tomato and potatoes with olive Lasagna
Ingredients: tomatoes, potatoes, olives
1. add in garlic, roadside pick up leaves, red pepper, onion, olive stir incense
2., add tomato, small fire boil sauce.
3. cut the potatoes into thin slices, a layer of sauce, a slice of potato, a layer of thousands of layers, and finally some bread crumbs.
4. bake the oven 180 degrees for 20 minutes.
* * * * * color value
Colorful pomegranate water
Ingredients: apples, bananas, lemons, pomegranates, oranges, Tasmania trees, honey, mint from the yard
1., juice extractor lemon and orange juice, pomegranate cut, take the seed into the bowl
2. bananas, apple slices, with small fire fried apples, then fried bananas to melt, add a teaspoon of honey, half a Chocolate Cookies then add crushed, add flavor
3., out of the dish, the fruit juice on the banana, apple consumption, sweet and sour with each other.
It takes 1 hours, including a meal before the dishes, staple food and dessert homemade "Michelin feast is ready. In order to make the meal full of a sense of ceremony, we also specially candles, pour the wine for fun.
How do you pick up the items?
Federico is usually rinsed with clean water and detergent, and then exposed to the sun in the yard.
If you pick up the tableware and other things, in addition to the above steps, but also with water disinfection, you can rest assured that the use of.
Through this "garbage" experience, let every habitual leftovers I cherish food, I also have a new perception: food that is thrown away and not wrong, wrong in our desire in this society is full of temptations, swelling.
Editor, Melissa
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