Rekub now also sell vegetable pralines permanently (Antwerp)
Rekub, based in Antwerp, has been launching sporadic projects against food waste for years. They have complete pralines, bars and Easter eggs from crooked vegetables and leftovers. Now the collective is launching a permanent webshop.
Only goodies can be found in the Rekub webshop. But not your typical sweet treats. Rekub makes pralines and pies with vegetables. To start with, they sell six vegetable pralines: with parsnips, beetroot, carrot with Elixir d’Anvers, pumpkin, beetroot with thyme and celeriac.
Rekub also goes beyond chocolates this time. They also sell now a celeriac cake, a carrot cake, a parsnip cake, a beetroot cake and mini cakes with six different flavours: zucchini/lemon, potato, beetroot, parsnip, pumpkin and banana.
“We believe the minds are ripe for daring based like ours. We also think that children will go wild with our desserts. And parents will be able to proudly say that their children like vegetables,” says Rekub. Rekub is an initiative of the Antwerp Ellien Stinissen and Marijke De Jongh.
“With our chocolates and desserts, we hope to make people at home think about how often they waste food. Also that the shape of fruit and vegetables doesn’t matter at all. Taste and nutritional value all the more. And when our desserts are on the Christmas table, we hope there will be a healthy discussion about food waste.”
Rekub has been single-handedly waging the fight against food waste for years. One third of the food produced worldwide is wasted. “That is because too much was produced, or because the fruit and vegetables do not meet the high standards we set for them. We continue to fight against this with our baseline ‘Perfection is Passé’. Thanks to our past experience in chocolatier training and working with skewed fruit and vegetables, we complete a luxury product from something ugly.”
“Nothing is wasted in our kitchen. For example, we use parsnips for both our pralines and cakes. The pulp is used for the cakes, the juice for the pralines. Wasting food is too crazy for words. At a time when global warming and pandemics are ravaging our planet, we will pay extra attention to this. Food waste is responsible for almost 10% of global CO2 emissions. Should food waste be a country, it would be the third largest emitter of CO2. That makes food waste everyone’s business,” says Rekub.