3. Salvage Supper Club

Photo by Andrew Hinderaker

For $50, diners at the monthly Salvage Supper Club feast on a six-course meal of expired food like bananas with black skin and stale bread. Keeping with the theme, the sixteen diners eat in a reclaimed dumpster which takes up a few parking spaces in Williamsburg and leave with an education about how they can eat all of the food they purchase. Interestingly enough, because of a law, diners cannot drink

Josh Treuhaft founded Salvage Supper Club to educate New Yorkers about how they waste so much edible food because it is slightly over ripe or a few days past the expiration date. Local restaurants and shops, farmers markets, food co-ops, and cookery schools donate their unwanted food to the supper club. All of the funds raised from the dinners go to Culinary Corps, City Harvest or other food-related a nonprofits.