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    John Oliver on Food Waste

    Love this!!! He says it so well..... Published on Jul 19, 2015 Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Food Waste (HBO) Producers, sellers, and consumers waste tons of food. John Oliver discusses the shocking amount of food we don’t eat.

    Winning Big at the Sonoma Raceway with Levy Restaurants!

    What a warm welcome! Levy’s Chefs and Staff from Sacramento, Portland, Las Vegas and Sonoma came out to meet us before we began loading. The truck quickly filled up with cases and trays layered high. The Levy Staff kept bringing more and more cases of food to donate. Just as we were preparing to leave, someone hurried out with stacks of pasty boxes filling his arms. The generosity and hospitality was impressive and set the bar high. Almost a ton of food . . . 1,902 lbs. of food was donated! Cases and cases of fresh vegetables, mixed greens, spinach, a variety of prepared salads, BBQ beef and BBQ pork, so many types of breads and rolls, sandwiches, breakfast burritos, apples, oranges, fre

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