The average family wastes $1,500 in food each year. Drexel Food Lab wants you to eat your garbage.

PHILADELPHIA — Take an onion, Jonathan Deutsch explained. Spend some time with it, thinking carefully what you could do with it. Or with fish bones. Or broccoli stems. "Think about the potentiality of every item," Deutsch said. This is not a culinary Zen exercise. It's a start to handling your household food waste in a more environmentally sustainable manner. For Deutsch, a chef, professor, and founding director of the Drexel Food Lab, this is how the home cook should start dealing with our country's burgeoning plate to trash can problem — one food item at a time. The Drexel Food Lab has been ...