I would not have stumbled upon Cafe Iterum in East Boston randomly. In nearly 18 years of living in the Boston area, I spent little time in that part of the city that sticks out like a jagged tongue lapping the waters surrounding it, unless you count trips to and from the airport. To get to Eastie from where I live, you travel way across town then take a tunnel under the water, keeping your fingers crossed along the way that you won’t run into backed up traffic. But thanks to my research on zero-waste cooking and help from digital search engines, I found my way outside my typical orbit to this little corner café.
I wanted to taste zero-waste cooking for myself, to see if the dining experience would be notably different from anything else. Since Boston likes to claim status as the home of the best and brightest in many fields, with many innovators, progressives, world-savers and world-changers among them, I figured I could find some some local zero-waste practitioners here.
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