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Interesting take. I am pro-garnish, or pro-presentation might be a better description. We eat with our eyes first, beautiful food tastes better. The rant against both inedible garnishes (a pineapple leaf? Really? It would just be waste if not a garnish) and edible (for unbalancing a drink - but isn't balance in the eye of the drinker? I don't squeeze lime into a perfect drink). I'm not sure how much waste there is in commercial kitchens, but probably less than in a home kitchen because waste is cost. In my home kitchen, spent citrus is used to make syrup, pineapple peels to make tepache, other peels often to make kvass, other food waste into the compost if it's not good for broth or kvass.

I don't always garnish but do appreciate them, they add beauty and that's not a waste.

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[–] chulo_sinhatche@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Any steps toward reducing waste should be applauded, even if it's a drop in the bucket compared to spent jet/container ship fuel. But the bartenders in this article seem to be missing the forest for the trees here. If you're so hell bent on reducing waste that you don't want a lemon wedge on your cocktail glass, but still eat beef multiple times a week for instance (the article doesn't mention what the bartenders diet choices are, but their restaurant employers serve a meat heavy menu), it seems a little hypocritical.

[–] Dinodicchellathicc@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I eat beef and burn though lemons like its my job

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