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Pableaux Johnson's turkey bone gumbo in bowl with garnish

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Don't throw away that turkey carcass until you try this Cajun gumbo

5:00am November 30, 2024

In rural Louisiana, Cajun cooks add spicy sausage to Thanksgiving leftovers for a tasty, warming gumbo.

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Fish curry inflected with coconut is a staple dish in the coastal Indian state of Goa. It's usually eaten accompanied by unpolished rice, fried fish and a dab of pickle. Once all the fish has been eaten up, the leftover curry is reheated over a low flame

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An Ode To Leftover Curry: The Next-Day Treasure Of Coastal India

8:00am March 11, 2018

by Joanna Lobo

Necessity is the mother of invention, and in this case, the reason behind kalchi koddi, a tasty staple of Goa.

Chef Massimo Bottura creates a meal from Thanksgiving leftovers in NPR's kitchen. "The leftover is a big problem if you don't have a vision, if you don't have the knowledge of what you can do," he says. Above, he checks the breadcrumbs to make sure they'r

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Less Waste, More Taste: A Master Chef Reimagines Thanksgiving Leftovers

7:22pm November 25, 2017

by Maria Godoy

Over this Thanksgiving week, Americans will toss almost 200 million pounds of turkey alone. Massimo Bottura helps us fight food waste by showing us how to turn leftovers into a world-class new meal.

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Indian weddings (and other big parties) serve a lot of food â and have a lot of leftovers. Now there's a plan in Mumbai to share the surplus with those who are hungry.

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The Dabbawallas Will Deliver Wedding Leftovers To The Hungry

7:00am May 15, 2016

by Chhavi Sachdev

Mumbai's dabbawallas, a lunch delivery collective, have begun gathering extra food from events and dropping it off with the homeless.