Jenny Dawsom Costa
The amount of perfectly OK fresh food that gets wasted because of imbalances in the food chain is shocking. Equally shameful is the vast quantities of fruit and veg that gets binned because they don’t look so pretty. But really, can a carrot ever be ugly? Is a healthy apple ever not pretty enough? No, of course not, don’t be stupid. However, it takes a very special person to tackle this type of global nonsense and that person is none other than West Scotland’s finest Jenny Costa.
After securing an MA in Maths and Economics and picking up some serious financial expertise at Odey Asset Management, she founded Rubies in the Rubble. This wonderful food company takes all the magnificent ‘waste’ farm food that is deemed not good enough for the shops and makes a cracking array of relishes, chutneys, ketchups and much else besides.
Jenny – and her almost all-female team – have won so many awards for their condiments that we don’t have space to list them.
Set up in 2011, Rubies in the Rubble saves surplus fruit and vegetable produce from the rubbish heap by turning it into delicious jams, relishes, chutneys, ketchups and other condiments. It’s a smart, commercial solution to a growing food waste problem that big industry players are struggling to fix.
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Q&A: Jenny Costa, Rubies In The Rubble
Set up in 2011, Rubies in the Rubble saves surplus fruit and vegetable produce from the rubbish heap by turning it into delicious jams, relishes, chutneys, ketchups and other condiments. It’s a smart, commercial solution to a growing food waste problem that big industry players are struggling to fix.
Jenny's Rubies in the Rubble cocktail uses her ketchups in an innovate way, created as part of the Diplomats of a New Era campaign with Diplomático
Jenny Costa, Rubies in the Rubble, on Burgers, the FT and rabbits
Jenny Costa,Co-founder, Rubies in the Rubble, on selling burgers, ‘reading’ the FT and being like a rabbit
Q&A: Jenny Costa, Rubies In The Rubble
Set up in 2011, Rubies in the Rubble saves surplus fruit and vegetable produce from the rubbish heap by turning it into delicious jams, relishes, chutneys, ketchups and other condiments. It’s a smart, commercial solution to a growing food waste problem that big industry players are struggling to fix.
Make Rubies in the Rubble, a Cocktail Made for Jenny Costa by Joe Hall of Satan’s Whiskers
Jenny's Rubies in the Rubble cocktail uses her ketchups in an innovate way, created as part of the Diplomats of a New Era campaign with Diplomático
Jenny Costa, Rubies in the Rubble, on Burgers, the FT and rabbits
Jenny Costa,Co-founder, Rubies in the Rubble, on selling burgers, ‘reading’ the FT and being like a rabbit
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