Using Them Up: How the World Makes Leftovers Taste Like New, with Jacquie Ottman
Welcome to the official page for Jacquie Ottman’s “Using Them Up” Project. Our aim: Help reduce climate change by empowering home cooks to use up leftovers, deliciously, inspired by how the whole world, for eons, has turned their own leftovers into something new and tasty. Schedule a talk for your group. View archived talks to other groups. Download free resources. Get in contact with Jacquie to talk about collaborations.
Invite Jacquie to Share Ideas for How to Use Up Leftovers, Deliciously.
Jacquie Ottman inspires home cooks to use the 7 beloved dishes used for centuries around the world to transform last night’s dinner into something new and delicious. Attendees learn how to reduce food waste and reduce climate change emissions, while also saving money and time, and discovering not only new cuisines, but learning new skills for using food more efficiently — and having fun.
Ottman’s lively, informative, and engaging talks are held in community settings (libraries, community centers, schools), at corporate events (i.e., Earth Day and before holidays), and at organizations/businesses (charity organizations, cooking schools, culinary trainings for youth, community kitchens, etc.). Give Jacquie a call today to talk more. Scroll below for details.
Register for Upcoming Zoom Talks
January 28, 2025: International Assn. of Culinary Professionals, “Health” Professional Interest Section Tuesday, January 28, 2025, 12 noon EST zoom talk Save the Date. Details to be posted. Meanwhile, LEARN MORE ABOUT IACP
Watch These Archived Zoom Webinars
Zoom Webinar presented to Harrison Public Library and Waste Free Greenwich, November 2024: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebT4Mlvdkjs
Zoom Webinar presented to Rewild Long Island, November 2024: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZgw2mUQXqI&t=39s
Zoom Webinar presented to Green America, October 2024: https://youtu.be/8-PkVAwow2c
Zoom Webinar presented to Shelter Island Public Library, May 2024: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3Nl4D6sI80&t=502s
Zoom Webinar presented to Good Neighbors of Park Slope, November 2023: https://goodneighborsofparkslope.org/content.aspx?page_id=4002&club_id=461925&item_id=2098188
Zoom Webinar presented to Center for Continuing Education, May 2024: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=org3YH0G7Gk
Request a copy of a FREE PDF of the recipes referenced in Jacquie’s talk: JAOTTMAN28 [@] gmail.com
Contact Jacquie Ottman at the email address below to request a copy of the FREE PDF of recipes referenced in the Videos.
Request a copy of “Eat Well. Waste Nothing” free PDF e-book detailing Jacquie’s pandemic cooking experience: JAOttman28 [@] gmail.com
“..so optimistic and life-affirming through the lens of food sustenance and importance in so many other ways that I feel my spirits lifted up and my interest in cooking reviving.” – Shirley L.
About Jacquie Ottman
Jacquelyn Ottman, On a Mission to Use Up Leftovers
Jacquelyn Ottman gives online and in-person talks, and bespoke consulting aimed at inspiring home cooks to use up leftovers.
She is a native New Yorker and an advocate for zero waste. A home cook since childhood, she is the author of three self-published books on her personal culinary history: “Family Gatherings: Five Recipes from Five Generations” (2000), “Ottman & Company: Meatpacking District Pioneers” (2022), the story of her family’s 150-year old NYC meat purveying firm); and “Connecting from a Quarantine Kitchen: My Shelter Island Pandemic Story” (2020).
A pioneer in the field of green marketing, she is the author of several books on the subject, as well as an adviser to the U.S. EPA’s Energy Star label, the USDA’s USDA Certified Biobased Label, and to several Fortune 500 companies. She is past chair, Manhattan Solid Waste Advisory Board, and founder of WeHateToWaste.com.
The content available on this page is a sneak peek at the book she is currently researching about new inspiration for using up the leftovers.
Learn more about Jacquie Ottman HERE: JO Food Bio 2024
Watch Jacquie Ottman take the #FoodScrapsChallenge
WATCH Jacquie Ottman take the #FoodScrapsChallenge. Take it yourself and you may be amazed at just how much food waste you generate each week: https://www.facebook.com/WeHateToWaste/videos/1140332189317582
Contact Jacquie Ottman
I’d love to hear from you. Please share your favorite recipe for leftovers, send feedback on my work, or arrange a presentation for your own group.
Please feel free to email me at JAOttman28 [@] gmail [dot] com. Or call 212 879 4160 in New York City.
SPECIAL THANKS: To all the interns and other helpers who made this work possible, especially: Julia Sikorski, Madeleine Phillips, Elinor Simek, Cecelia Kane, Emily Paytas, Lauren Wakeman, Gabi Lung, Carissa Edwards-Mendez, Anna Donovan, Anya Steinmetz, Ava Horn, Rebecca Downer, Lucy Zhao.
Special Acknowledgement: Sara Dickerman, In Praise of Leftovers, Slate, March 20 2016: https://slate.com/human-interest/2016/03/leftovers-arent-glamorous-but-theyre-the-most-joyous-part-of-my-cooking-life.html