Agreed, "not wasting" does not always equate "eating." Preservation is something, when I spent a lot of time in my childhood in rural areas, that was baked int

Agreed, "not wasting" does not always equate "eating." Preservation is something, when I spent a lot of time in my childhood in rural areas, that was baked into every family. It was a way of smoothing out the seasonal fluctuations in food availability. Now, having lived in the city for quite some time - food preservation is a "niche hobby." I posit this is because fresh produce importing from other parts of the world have really smoothed out the availability. But, we won't eat much of the fruit from other countries - largely because we find it wasteful (transportation) and of suspicious quality (both taste and health).