--- title: Massimo Bottura Wants You to Stop Wasting Your Food | TIME description: The brightest gems in Bottura’s culinary empire are not restaurants at all. They are soup kitchens. Not that Bottura would call them that. He thinks of them as catalysts, venues that not only reaffirm the dignity of the guests, but also draw light and art into neglected neighborhoods, all while focusing attention on the growing global food-waste crisis by turning foods destined for landfill into Michelin Guide–worthy meals. canonical: https://time.com/video/ckWgQS3B/ og:title: Massimo Bottura Wants You to Stop Wasting Your Food og:description: The brightest gems in Bottura’s culinary empire are not restaurants at all. They are soup kitchens. Not that Bottura would call them that. 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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Massimo Bottura Wants You to Stop Wasting Your Food [Watch (HLS stream): Massimo Bottura Wants You to Stop Wasting Your Food](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/ckWgQS3B.m3u8) (3:53)  _Published 2022-01-12. The brightest gems in Bottura’s culinary empire are not restaurants at all. They are soup kitchens. Not that Bottura would call them that. He thinks of them as catalysts, venues that not only reaffirm the dignity of the guests, but also draw light and art into neglected neighborhoods, all while focusing attention on the growing global food-waste crisis by turning foods destined for landfill into Michelin Guide–worthy meals._ --- Feb 21, 2024 4:46 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [A New Swedish Law is Helping to Turn Food Waste Into Fuel](/video/xgpGFyxM/) ### A New Swedish Law is Helping to Turn Food Waste Into Fuel [Impossible Foods Wants to Transform the Way We Eat](/video/sFPkbZTR/) ### Impossible Foods Wants to Transform the Way We Eat [Skeptic Of What’s In McDonald’s Food? Tweet Them](/video/RlG5OENh/) ### Skeptic Of What’s In McDonald’s Food? Tweet Them --- ## Transcript Kind: captions Language: en My grandmother teach me how to grow up not wasting anything, to be respectful for food, to act seasonal, buying the right amount of food for three, four days and then again shop for the family. Like that, you can eat better, you can spend less, and you don't waste anything. We are seven billion people on Earth. 860 million people, they don't have anything to eat. We produce food for 12 billion people, and we waste 33 percent of the food that we produce. So the answer is very simple. It's fighting food waste. A Refettorio is not a soup kitchen. Art has always been the highest point of the human mind. Everyone who doesn't have the opportunity to have art in their homes, they can come to the Refettorio and feel home, and that's the warm hug that we are giving to them. Welcome, come here, look, this is a beautiful place, but it's your place, and this is the food that we cook for you. We are here for you. Beauty is not beautiful at all if it doesn't have an ethic approach. The way you buy, the way you protect your farmers, your artisans, the way you treat your team, the way you create your menu, every single action is part of this. Food waste is part of this. What you think is food waste for us is just an opportunity to create something amazing. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Massimo Bottura Wants You to Stop Wasting Your Food","description":"The brightest gems in Bottura’s culinary empire are not restaurants at all. They are soup kitchens. Not that Bottura would call them that. 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