Five celebrity chefs launched a campaign on Tuesday to encourage the French to throw away less food by concocting a banquet for 5,000 people entirely from ingredients that were about to be binned, reports The Telegraph.
The "dustbin feast" was prepared in huge 500-litre pots with the help of 52 apprentice chefs in a square in Lille, northern France, and the exploit was due to be shown on national television on Tuesday night.
The restricted but sophisticated menu included fish rillettes, potato-and-endive velouté and a tandoori vegetable stew.
"I've never had to cook as large a quantity as this," said Yves Camborde, a chef from the Basque country. "People are wrong to think that ingredients that don't look pretty aren't good to eat."
The Michelin-starred chefs began their preparations with crates of bruised, misshapen potatoes and stringy, overripe avocados collected from supermarkets and groceries that were about to throw them away. They were all free.
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