July 26, 2011 Press Release:

Surprising, inventive and easy, “Quick Treatments” are gourmet rescues freshly compiled weekly by co-founders Marlene Samuels and Nancy Gershman from their popular chef interviews on The Expendable Edibles Blog

January 12, 2011 Press Release:

The Expendable Edibles Blog by home chefs Marlene Samuels and Nancy Gershman is creating new devotees for its popular chef interviews, complementing the gourmet recipe database and community cookbook ExpendableEdibles.com launched by the duo in 2002.

September 28, 2010 Press Release:

Home chefs Nancy Gershman and Marlene Samuels have completed a major updating to ExpendableEdibles.com – the only community cookbook of gourmet recipes and treatments for “expendable edibles”: six categories of foods traditionally tapped for taste, texture and nutrition only by restaurant chefs and culinary schools.

 November 19, 2010

April 27, 2005

Featured in the Good Eating section of The Chicago Tribune, home chefs Nancy Gershman and Marlene Samuels expound on the "use it or lose it" philosophy, sharing five of their most celebrated expendable edible recipes.

March 2, 2005

Loathe to waste anything in your kitchen? San Jose Mercury News reporter Carolyn Jung debuts our site, filled with recipe ideas for using up all those odds and ends in the fridge and cupboards.

September 2003

In ReadyMade Magazine, two gourmets hit the kitchen, urging America to eat gloriously but watch your waste.

 November 25, 2010

Richard Kamins, host of WMRD's CT Food & Wine interviews Nancy Gershman and Marlene Samuels of Expendable Edibles (www.Expendableedibles.com) about their mission to create and compile gourmet rescues for "perfectly good food that isn't perfect anymore."

April 27, 2005

Skip O'Dell of WGN Radio's The Morning Show talks with Nancy Gershman about gourmet twists, food safety, and shelf life tricks for expendable edibles.

January 31, 2004

Maty Montfort, host of Home & Garden Television Network's (HGTV) Smart Solutions program invites food expert Nancy Gershman of Expendable Edibles to share delicious recipes that use the parts of fruits and vegetables that usually get thrown away.