Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Introduction -- 1. Pickles and Piety -- 'The Accomplish'd Lady's Delight in Preserving' -- Salt, Pickles, Pies and Cheese -- The Pious Kitchen -- Working for Scraps -- 2. Muckhills, Skins and Entrails -- Pigs and Pudding-Pits -- Old Father Thames -- From Muckhills to Miasma -- Putrefied Bites -- 3. The World in a Tin Can -- The Invention of the Tin Can -- Going Global -- Stench and Scandal -- Shipping Surplus -- 4. Mrs Beeton and the Rag-and-Bone Man -- 'Specks' and Crumbs -- Buying and Scavenging -- Middle-Class Thrift -- New Thrift, New Waste -- 5. The Kitchen Front -- Rationing -- Doctor Carrot and Food Substitutes -- Salvaging Scraps -- Dig for Victory -- 6. McDonald's, Punks and Food Anarchists -- The New Environmentalist Movement -- McSpotlight -- Radical Reclamation -- Making it Mainstream -- 7. Food Waste in the Time of Coronavirus -- Leftovers in Lockdown -- Hunger and Help -- A Leaky Food Chain -- Brexit Bites -- Epilogue: A Food Waste-Free Future? -- 'A Rotten Apple Spoils the Barrel' -- AI Food Savers -- Fridges of the Future -- Upcycled Leftovers -- Conclusion: Back to the Future of Food Waste -- Plate Section -- Timeline -- Acknowledgements -- Image Credits -- Bibliography -- Notes -- About the Author -- An Invitation from the Publisher.