Program 07
Wednesday
Sep 23, 2009
Program 7 in the 10 part radio series “Grow it, Cook it, Eat it” presented by Michael Lemass is being broadcast today at 4.30pm, Wednesday 23rd of September from the top of the Dundrum Shopping centre in Dublin South FM 93.9 studios!
The program is about what could be done with some of the food that is thrown away as well as strangers coming together to cooperate without any money in the equation to serve up food for free to the public.
This program features a Dublin chapter of the international movement Food Not Bombs. We follow two NCAD students Andreas Von Knobloch and Jonah King who have been involved in Food Not Bombs for the last year, collecting and giving away free food everyweek to their fellow students on Thomas Street and anyone else who’s passing by.
We start by cleaning the containers we are going to use to collect the food in and then go down to the first restaurant which has been a regular contributor for the last year. They are very generous with their left over food and are happy that someone is going to make use of it and that its not going to end up in the bin.
Then we do a cold call to a new restaurant. Andreas and Jonah explain the concept of Food Not Bombs to Deirdre McCafferty who runs the vegetarian restaurant Cornucopia.
Next day we are back up at the college preparing the food and getting all the kitchen equipment out onto the pavement on Thomas Street.
Check out Andreas and Jonah’s website http://officeofpublicworks.wordpress.com/
and follow the link to thier Food Not Bombs chapter in Dublin.
The international site for the Food Not Bombs ‘mothership’ is at www.foodnotbombs.net
You can now download Program 7 of the 10 part series here:
“Grow it, Cook it, Eat it” Program 7
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Michael Lemass