Vancouver Would Be Cooler If is a column that advocates for things that either exist in other cities and/or could otherwise serve to improve and celebrate life in our own.

Waste from BC breweries is being used to make bread, and local baker Gooey Sweets has got a good thing going by transforming rescued food into baked goods. However, the old-bread-into-good-pasta equation is news to us! Enter Eat Wasted, whose mission is to make a positive environmental and social impact by turning the world’s most wasted food (bread) into truly tasty noodles.

The Copenhagen-based food waste initiative is currently on the road, working with a bunch of cool chefs to feed folks their up-cycled “Bread Waste Pasta” at pop-ups and food festivals in cities around Europe and North America. The latter leg of their ‘The Wasted “World” Tour‘ kicks off with two Canadian stops – Friday, Oct. 18th at The Stop Community Food Centre in Toronto, and Sunday, Oct. 20th at Montreal’s Elena restaurant – before heading south of the border to hit spots in New York, Los Angeles and Mexico City; then wrapping up the tour with an epic feast on their home turf on November 16th.

Although unadvertised events have been known to go down in-between major stops on Eat Wasted’s pop-up itinerary, as of the time of writing there is no Vancouver stop listed on the calendar… In an effort to register with the cool-as-heck concept, we’re giving them a shout out here. We think that Eat Wasted’s pop-up would gel especially well with the ambience and folks at Bar Tartare in Gastown [hint hint, nudge nudge].

In the meantime, stay tuned to @eatwasted for announcements and to keep abreast of all of the cool things that they are doing – including launching their own pasta product (said to possess the same ‘al dente’ bite and flavour as traditionally made pasta) as a direct-to-consumer product, available for worldwide shipping by pre-ordering here now. If all goes well with their fundraising efforts, the team aim to expand production to an Italian factory and continue their mission to combat food waste while feeding vulnerable communities (for every kilo of pasta sold, they donate a portion to Food for Soul, a non-profit that transforms surplus food into meals for those in need).

Even if our West Coast city doesn’t make the cut, by Spring of next year we can still reenact the eating portion of an Eat Wasted in our home kitchens. But if you are reading this, Eat Wasted, please come to Vancouver! We think what you are doing is rad!