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Anne-Marie Bonneau
@zerowastechef.bsky.social
Award-winning cookbook author. Speaker. Lots of fermentation, sourdough and cooking like Grandma. Born at 323 ppm. 🇨🇦🇺🇸
Thirteen brands of pasta would be affected. On the upside, homemade pasta, while much more work, tastes incredible.

Go here for a simple pasta recipe: zerowastechef.com/2017/09/20/h...
November 11, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Thank you for everyone who attended my online sourdough starter workshop this weekend. I hope your starters bubble up soon!

If you missed the workshop, go here for the instructions to make a sourdough starter: zerowastechef.com/2017/04/11/p...
November 11, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Latest book pic: Human Nature by Kate Marvel

“This is the best climate book I’ve ever read. It’s magnificent—both planetary and personal, saturated with electric metaphors, incisive vignettes, legitimately funny jokes, and an unflappable, knowing love for Earth, our home.”—@ayanaeliza.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 8:24 PM
The 7th national Plastic Free Lunch Day campaign runs from November 17th to the 21st.

The annual event helps schools reduce waste, protect kids’ health and build skills. Are you an educator? A parent? Go here for more info: cafeteriaculture.org/initiative/p...
November 7, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Plastic pollution is a global crisis. Sign up for the TEDxGreatPacificGarbagePatch livestream. Experts will answer "How do we solve plastic pollution by 2040?" Topics include microplastics & human health, environmental justice, climate change & more. Register: bit.ly/TEDxLivestream #PlasticPollutes
Sign Up for the TEDxGreatPacificGarbagePatch Livestream | Plastic Pollution Coalition
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November 5, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Annual Hachiya persimmon PSA!

Enjoy these persimmons AFTER they soften—so soft, you may think they're bad. Firm Hachiya persimmons are horribly astringent. You'll never forget the day you bite into an unripe one. But after they ripen, they taste like candy. (Eat squat Fuyus any time.)
October 31, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Tell the City and County of San Francisco to put an immediate moratorium on the installation of artificial turf.

sign.moveon.org/petitions/ha...
Stop the Plastic Takeover of Our Parks! Tell the city we want natural grass not plastic turf!
The numbers don't lie: • 28% more non-contact lower body injuries. • 32% more non-contact knee injuries. • 69% more non-contact foot and ankle injuries occurred on turf. • Turf can get up to 60 degree...
sign.moveon.org
October 31, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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October 30, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Reposted by Anne-Marie Bonneau
In this time of racial division and threats to our nation's core values, voting Yes on Prop 50 is critical to farm workers and our communities. Be the voice for those who need it the most. #YesOnProp50
October 29, 2025 at 10:17 PM
New newsletter out today! "The best way to lower food costs: Waste less food, 20 strategies to eat all you buy."

One strategy, circular cooking, will absolutely slash wasted food. Read more here: zerowastechef.substack.com/p/the-best-w... #foodwaste
October 29, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I transplanted an artichoke mama to the backyard. This trunk-like stalk has 10 babies attached to it (you can't see them all here). Artichokes are perennial vegetables—at least in my zone, 9b.
October 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Yes on #Prop50
October 27, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Raising Hare ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
During lockdown in the English countryside, the author comes across an abandoned newborn hare. After initially hesitating, she brings the leveret home. She does not name it or treat it as a pet and rarely handles to honor its wild nature. The memoir chronicles their relationship.
October 27, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Grocery prices are up!If you’d like to eat well while saving money, may I suggest eating more beans? (Especially dry beans.
Go here for this weeks newsletter all about dry beans, how to cook and them and why you'd want to: zerowastechef.substack.com/p/save-money...
October 25, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Something to keep in mind this upcoming consumer season, also known as the holiday season. (With apologies to Michael Pollan.)

My secondhand Le Creuset small Dutch oven is going strong, 10 years later.
October 22, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Cauliflower leaves make a tasty side.

Toss in olive oil, sprinkle with salt and pepper and roast at 400°F for 15 minutes or until the ribs are fork tender.

If the ribs are thick (1/2 inch or larger), separate them from the greens and roast separately as the leaves cook faster.
October 22, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Currently reading: A Poison Like No Other: How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies, by Matt Simon, just in time for Halloween—this is a horror story. (But very good. Please read it!)

More info here: bookshop.org/a/4585/97816...
October 21, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Silicon Valley #NoKings
October 19, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Halloween waste is frightful!

Every Halloween, 1.3 billion pounds of pumpkin go to landfills, generating polluting methane gas. That's on top of fast fashion costumes, plastic decorations and more candy than we can eat.

Go here for 7 ways to cut waste: zerowastechef.substack.com/p/7-simple-w...
October 17, 2025 at 6:58 PM
If you're carving up pumpkins, save those seeds (or squash seeds, shown here) for toasting and snacking.

Go here for the simple recipe: zerowastechef.com/2019/10/18/r...
October 17, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Remember: The ribs of collard greens, chard, kale, beets and other greens are food! I chop mine up finely and sauté them along with onions. These collard greens and stems went into a pot of chickpea stew. Yum!
October 15, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Adding a piece of kombu (a type of seaweed) to dry beans as they soak and then cook, helps reduce gas-producing raffinose sugars present in beans.
October 13, 2025 at 11:10 PM
"Burns claimed butter and oil used in pans is more unhealthy than Ptfe exposure and said the cookware industry is unfairly maligned because it did not create the chemicals."

Industry lies.

Also...people STILL cling to the debunked 90s low-fat diet myth?

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
California governor under pressure over bill to ban cookware made with Pfas
Gavin Newsom, who has vetoed environmental bills before, feeling push from industry and celebrity chefs on next steps
www.theguardian.com
October 3, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Wheat paste works well for jar labels or protest signs.

I cut these labels out of a brown paper bag lying around. Go here for the wheat paste recipe: zerowastechef.com/2020/10/07/p...
October 1, 2025 at 6:11 PM