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.
Jacquie is Available to Give Your Group an Engaging Talk about How to Use Up Leftovers, Deliciously.
Jacquie Ottman can help inspire your group 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, save money, save time on cooking new food, and, discover not only new cuisines, but learn new skills for using food more efficiently — and have fun.
Ottman’s lively, informative, and engaging talks can be held in community settings (libraries, community centers, schools), at corporate events (i.e., Earth Day and before holidays), at organizations/businesses (charity organizations, cooking schools, culinary trainings for youth, community kitchens, etc.).
Following are some recent talks:
Watch this Zoom Webinar presented to Shelter Island Public Library, May 2024
Click on this image or cut and paste this link into your browser:
Jacquelyn Ottman shares strategies with Long Island’s East End and Shelter Islanders for Preventing Food Waste by Using Up Leftovers
Watch this Zoom Webinar presented to Good Neighbors of Park Slope, November 2023
Click on this image or cut and paste this link into your browser:
https://goodneighborsofparkslope.org/content.aspx?page_id=4002&club_id=461925&item_id=2098188
Watch this Zoom Webinar presented to Center for Continuing Education, May 2024
Click on this image or cut and paste this link into your browser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=org3YH0G7Gk
Upcoming Talks
Rewilding Long Island, Wednesday, October 30, 2024, 7pm EST zoom talk
Harrison Public Library, Wednesday, November 6, 2024, 7pm EST zoom talk
International Assn. of Culinary Professionals, Tuesday, January 28, 2025, 12 noon EST zoom talk
Email us to request a copy of a FREE PDF of the recipes referenced the 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.
Email mail us to request a copy of a FREE 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 lifeed 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
Contact Jacquie Ottman
I’d love to hear from you. Please share your favorite recipe for leftovers, send feedback on my work, or to 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