An evening out watching stone soup being made and seeing art related to its creation makes for a pleasant evening. There was a poetry reading, slide show and guitar strumming to the lyrics incorporating food ideas and all this was very informal and spontaneous. But there was a film that caught my attention by a group that is into diving into dumpsters, collecting discarded food and preparing it for their table. Do you find it odd? Well some of their cool vegetarian friends do according to them. But when you have the divide between the have and have-nots widening in the city why should this be surprising especially during this modern day recession? Who cares what people think if this group acts responsibly enough their not going to come down with cholera, salmonella poisoning or an E. Coli infection?

My guess is that they wash and cook well what is collected to eat and that whatever is rotten is obviously avoided but the idea of people jumping into dumpsters to collect trashed food pieces is not exactly popular with everybody. The group’s claim is that if the food is discarded it is theirs to pick up and what is often thrown out can be made edible in a society, which is quite wasteful; the young would be spending many hours having to work to get store brand variety and while putting less time in their studies, shall we say?

The trend does not end with food but also discarded furniture and items that can be brought to new life. What one entreprenieurial kid did was tha the altered the circuitry of a musical toy he found and out came a odd tonality. Let that be an inspiration for youth looking to recycle the past and bring a new meaning to their lives.