The second of IMU Sustainability Week Events was held on the campuses of our University on 19-23 December 2022. Within the scope of the Sustainability Week organized by the IMU Sustainability Office, where a different event was held every day, a dinner event titled “Zero-Waste Turkish Cuisine” was held on Thursday, December 22, 2022 at our Orhanlı Campus by the Department of Gastronomy and Culinary Arts of IMU Faculty of Tourism.
Within the scope of the event, our department students presented a special menu prepared with a zero waste approach to the guests. In the event, which was attended by our Rector Prof.Dr. Gülfettin ÇELİK and Tuzla Mayor Dr. Şadi YAZICI, our students introduced the products of zero waste kitchen practices that they prepared with the perspective from theory to practice that they have acquired in the Turkish Cuisine course they have been taking for a year. Our students tried to inspire today’s widespread food waste problem with a solution from our tradition by adapting the understanding of “not wasting anything”, which has been practiced in traditional Turkish cuisine for centuries, and shared information about the approaches they used while preparing the dishes and the recycling processes of the materials used. Then, they personally served the menu to the guests, where no material was thrown away and recycled and only seasonal vegetables and fruits were used. You can watch the news of our event, which was also covered by the national media, here.
