Jamie Oliver, Tesco, and FareShare to launch surplus food cookery school

Michael Holder
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Retailer, charity, and TV chef to help train over 1,000 community cooks on how to avoid waste when using surplus food donations

Jamie Oliver, Tesco, and FareShare have cooked up a new food waste initiative to help communities across the UK make better use of surplus food donations and reduce the amount of edible produce ending...

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