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According to the National Resources Defense Council, supermarkets throw away on average, $2,300 worth of out-of-date, but still consumable, food every night. It’s a wasteful practice Thaler hopes to put an end to by raising $1,500 to open a café that gives away discarded grub. (Read More)

http://live.huffingtonpost.com/r/segment/'freegans'%2C-dumpster-divers%2C-live-off-discarded-food/515dc6cb78c90a2f240000d6 Maximus is interviewed on the Huffington Posts Live streaming channel for 25 minutes with friend and Tufts anthropologist Emily... (Read More)

A Tufts University student is opening an underground "restaurant" with a menu featuring discarded foods taken from supermarket dumpsters. The food will be served free to all patrons, but the new idea still raises some interesting questions. (Read More)

We're making a cookbook! Here are some rough sketches of beginnings. Also, Dr. Deesnuts now has handlebars! Hooray!  also also, here's another blog about us  http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/bella/2013/04/kickstarter-freegan-cafe.php  (Read More)

I spoke with a sociologist named Alex Barnard at UC Berkeley a couple days ago. He wanted to interview me for a book on dumpster diving. He's written some pretty interesting papers. Check this one out if you're interested... (Read More)

He is the most wonderfulest person ever and will be cooking lots of food and doing lots of dishes. Thanks Nick!   (Read More)

Starving college students have been known to come up with creative ways to get free and/or cheap food. But Tufts University student Maximus Thaler is taking frugal to a whole new level. He and a crew of dumpster-diving hippies friends want to start up a restaurant (read: soup kitchen, because they don't actually want to charge anyone for the food) with goods they "glean" from the dumpsters of Boston's grocery stores. (Read More)

Eating out means shelling out money, whether it is for a fine dining experience or a takeaway. But would you ever eat at a place that serves you food "free of cost" from 'rubbish'- literally? (Read More)

FANCY a bite at the dumpster diver cafe? This new underground restaurant in the US will feature food found in rubbish bins. The Gleaners Kitchen in Somerville Massachusetts is the creation of Tufts University student Maximus Thaler. He calls it an "underground restaurant and grocery store". (Read More)

The Gleaners' Kitchen is an underground restaurant and grocery store in Somerville, Massachusetts, which is the creation of Tufts University student Maximum Thaler, KNTV reports. (Read More)

We reached our last stretch goal in 7 days! incredimazing! Here is a new video with an update on the construction process of Dr. Deesnuts, as well as an introduction to our newest stretch goal to get a chest freezer and new kitchen appliances. If you... (Read More)

Here is a link to the radio show called Food Starter   (Read More)

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http://business.time.com/2013/04/03/dumpster-diver-cafe-underground-restaurant-to-feature-discarded-foods-and-no-prices/ also, the Say No to Food Waste Blog http://saynotofoodwaste.org/2013/04/02/restaurant-that-gives-free-food/ Also also, check out... (Read More)

The practice of "dumpster diving" has been featured in reality TV shows and parodied on "Portlandia." This summer, foods salvaged from supermarket dumpsters will play a central role in a very unusual Boston-area café. (Read More)

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Check it out, Russian news website ridus posted an article about The Gleaners Kitchen http://www.ridus.ru/news/75763/ (google translate is helpful here)   (Read More)

Turkey meatballs, organic Greek yogurt, fair trade coffee. It sounds like the makings of a persnickety shopper’s grocery list. But it’s just one batch of fresh food that Maximus Thaler retrieved from a dumpster outside of a Massachusetts supermarket. (Read More)

Hi all! This is a special update, a big Thank You to the 49 of you that donated and helped us to reach our goal so quickly. Thank You THANKYOU!!!  We're going to keep fundraising for the next two and a half weeks. Our next goal is to build a bike... (Read More)

We were on Wait Wait Dont Tell Me! National Radio = Pretty Cool  http://www.npr.org/2013/03/30/175726109/limericks  (Read More)

Most restaurants get their ingredients from a distributor truck, but at least one is looking to get everything it needs from what others have thrown away. A Tufts University student in Cambridge, Mass., used the Internet to raise funds for a restaurant space from which to prepare and serve the food he and his associates find in local dumpsters. (Read More)

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When Maximus Thaler finds a carton of eggs or a loaf of bread while dumpster diving, he doesn’t toss it back — he brings it home to cook with. Thaler, a senior, is in the process of launching The Gleaners’ Kitchen, an initiative that will offer community members free meals prepared from food that is obtained from “dumpster diving” at local grocery stores. (Read More)

A Tufts University student that searches dumpsters behind grocery stores and makes meals with what he finds wants to make his future Somerville apartment into a 24-hour cafe and serve the food for free. (Read More)

The idea of eating food from a dumpster might be a turn off to some, but Tufts University student Maximus Thaler is challenging the way we think of waste by doing just that. Thaler and his friends go dumpster diving at grocery stores and glean food that is past the expiration date, but still safe to eat. In a single night, Thaler said he can find up to thousands of dollars of useable food. Thaler is raising money to open a freegan cafe in Somerville called The Gleaners' Kitchen that would offer free food to patrons and operate under the concept of turning "waste into wealth". (Read More)

Maximus Thaler has started a Kickstarter campaign to raise money to open a kitchen where he will cook and serve "freegan" food pulled from local dumpsters. (Read More)