Monday, August 5, 2019

WE HATE PLASTIC, USE COMPOSTABLE BOWLS...UH, ON SECOND THOUGHT, MAYBE NOT

Another episode in the "be careful what you wish for" chronicles--P.S. Food tastes pretty bad in them too--ditto for the compostable spoons:  

NEW FOOD ECONOMY: The bowls at Chipotle and Sweetgreen are supposed to be compostable. They contain cancer-linked “forever chemicals.” 

The biggest culinary star of the past five years isn’t a chef, or a restaurant group, or the author of a cookbook. It’s a bowl, a humble piece of take-out packaging that’s taken the world of commercial foodservice by storm, rising so quickly that few have noted its troubling secret.  If you live in an American city and dine out with any frequency, you’ve almost certainly encountered one: a beige, earthy-looking receptacle, thicker than paper and thinner than cardboard, with a wide mouth and a base small enough to cradle in your palm. READ MORE HERE.

p.s. website seems to be having issues

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