Ben Elliot arrives for our breakfast meeting having already been into battle. “I had a row with my youngest son today because he wouldn’t eat all his porridge. Negotiating with him on anything is a nightmare.”When Britain’s new food waste tsar was growing up he was not allowed to leave the table until he had finished everything on his plate. Caught between an intransigent 21st-century four-year-old and the horror of throwing food away, what did he do? “I ended up eating most of it.”He may not yet have persuaded his son to be less wasteful, but can he…

Source: The Times January 16, 2019 23:59 UTC