THE LEFTOVERS ISSUE

Who knew foraging could be funny? Alexis did. Her TikTok is absolutely alive with joy, catch phrases, tunes, jokes and mushrooms.

All is monochrome and maudlin until the rejuvenating salve is spread over the landscape of parched turkey breast, cold potato, pickles and cranberry sauce.

South Korea is often held up as a pioneer in food waste management, but does the government need to update and overhaul their schemes?

When you hear about Singapore you think about these free-trade policies, the welcoming attitude to foreign investment, but you never hear that ninety per cent of land is owned by the government and 85% of housing is supplied by government-owned housing corporations.

They’ve spent the past decade disrupting New York’s culinary scene and Bronx-born culinary collective Ghetto Gastro have recently released their long-awaited debut cookbook. It’s been worth the wait. Black Power Kitchen is much more than a collection of recipes.

During the Christmas period, two million turkeys, five million Christmas puddings, and 74 million mince pies get disposed while still edible, causing almost 270,000 tons of food waste.

The Christmas/Thanksgiving leftovers sandwich has mythical status. We all look forward to it, sitcoms have hung whole episodes off it, high street chains even start selling them in October because it’s the best sandwich of the year.

Multiple Michelin star-winning chef, Tom Kerridge, is a massive football fan, so we thought we’d ask him to pick a football team using the Christmas leftovers sandwich ingredients as players.