Instead, the state's biggest wasters (ie, big restaurants, universities and manufacturers rather than households) will need to get creative, donating edible food to charities and using the rest as compost or fodder for anaerobic-digestion facilities, which turn organic waste into energy.
As part of a monthly session in which the architects explore their craft in creative ways, Edible Architecture Day was both delightful and funny, although as Chris Hildrey, one of the architects invited to join the event, said, "We created the Thames Barrier from sushi.
Some were so intricate they took up to 30 hours to create, and all entries competed for prizes in categories that included Most Creative, Least Edible, and Best Overall.
Olga will join illustrious ranks in October, when her recipe is published alongside Selby's portraits of more than 40 of the food world's most creative figures in "Edible Selby" (Abrams), a book based on his T column of the same name.
Hide and Go Eat focuses on the creative ways some animals store edibles.
Their Riot of Colour garden, designed by Edible Bus Stop creative director Will Sandy, was a vital ingredient in the urban greening theme at the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show.
"People have definitely been creative in their use of edible items," said Tara Casella, manager of the Essex County Environmental Center, in Roseland, N.J., which is running its fourth annual Sustainable Homes and Habitats Gingerbread Contest.
Aside from making my own cakes, I collaborate sometimes on special projects with Miss Cakehead – she's a creative director, who works mostly on edible PR stunts, using cake in unexpected ways, like gory edible autopsies for Halloween and so on.
Edible Book Festivals feature creative food projects that draw their inspiration from books and stories.
Before we had even started the digging for the first site, I met with Will Sandy, who is a landscaper and now Edible Bus Stop's creative director, and we both thought this concept was much bigger than one site.
