rounding out the group, tom colicchio. to colicchio, cooking isn't just an art, it is a craft. >> the chicken liver mousse was really well seasoned. >> he uses his success to help others, whether giving young chefs a chance -- >> the winning chef is kristen. >> or helping the world's hungry find a place at the table. welcome to "titans at the table." thank you so much for joining us. let's have a cheers before we begin. >> [all] cheers. >> let me start with this question. p.j. clarke's has been around since the 1800's, well over a hundred years old establishment. i think it was an irish immigrant who came here, decided this was a great restaurant, bought it, and then expanded it. so, when you look at your own businesses, do you look and say i want to make sure this stays around for over 100 years? >> no. babbo turns 15 this year. i know mesa turned 22. i think we have already outlived our original plans. we planned on getting in but we did not have an out, nor did we have a finish or dream of a finish. 100 years -- >> seem

. >> joining me now tom colicchio. chef, so how did we get here? about eating what you can grow. we were very economical with our consumer habits. to this culture of excess and waste. >> i think it started with convenience foods fast foods how they process foods. we started -- we didn't value food anymore. so it's easy to waste. it almost becomes disposable. when you look at the amount of waste in the system, starting from the farm to the packer, to supermarkets, right to the consumer. right along the entire scale there's waste. you don't notice it. you have the vegetable, the carrot bags, a couple of days go by, it ends up in the garbage. >> i guess i wonder, so what seems to be required is a culture change of sorts. one, getting consumers used to the idea that just because the peach is funny shaped that you can still eat it. but also, there's meats that are a big energy suck and getting us to eat less of it. >> i think that culture shift are going to take longer. this film will inform the culture and things can start to change. so we have to addr

i think this is the start of it. >> tom colicchio, always a pleasure, man. >> cool. thanks a lot. >>> all right, the story behind the brave decision the parents of a transgender 8-year-old made, ahead. >> it's a hard thing to go through, because when you think about it, you want to be supportive of your child and let them do what they want, explore, express themselves, but at the same time, you're thinking, what are other people going to think kbm . >>> "washington post's" tehran bureau chief jason was arrested in iran in july and has been imprisoned since then without being charged or given access to a lawyer. finally, after nine months in custody, nine months, he was charged this week, quote, with espionage and three other serious crimes, including collaborating with hostile governments and propaganda against the establishment. he was finally allowed to hire a lawyer in march, seven months after being arrested, and that lawyer is now responding to the charges. quote, jason is a journalist. it is in the nature of his profession to gain access to information and publ

and joining us now is award-winning chef restauranteur, and msnbc food correspondent, tom colicchio.produce grown goes to waste chef. and 40% of food produced in the u.s. is thrown out. these are staggering statistics. what makes this film so important? >> the filmmakers, they're tackling a subject we don't often talk about. you know, often we talk about food -- use hear about farmers markets and chefs get a lot of play and stuff. and clearly there's a lot of talk about hunger in this country. but this idea of waste isn't something we really talk about and focus on. so it's -- this is such an amazing project. you know filmmakers decide to go six months without purchasing food. and they manage in that time to spend only $200 on food while they recovered about 20,000. >> what's the takeaway? i want to talk about the film more. what is the simple take, did -- takeaway that people watching cannot be part of the problem but part of the solution that ultimately you say will affect the price of food across the country to affect everybody? >> you know, it should affect the price. if we save

i'm tom colicchio. up next, the premier of a stunning documentary that highlights the experiment of an average couple convinced they can go six months on discarded food alone. after the film, i hope you'll join me for a chat with the group of people hoping to turn things around. "just eat it," up next. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i don't think we're foodies. i think we're more like food fans, you know, at parties i'm always the one that's hovering over the snack table. and even when i was a kid, i remember going to my friends' houses and opening their fridge and taking food out of there. >> as a kid, i was more had a problem with rationing than anything. you can see that even though i've got my own candy, i'm looking at his going, that would be nice. my mom thinks i'm looking at my brother, admiring my brother, but i know for sure that i'm admiring his candy in this photo. i've read a couple news articles now that we're wasting 40% of our food. my question is, if that much food is being wasted, how much of it is still

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right now, msnbc correspondent tom colicchio, hostation chat to talk about the no food wasted campaigne he is. you see him on twitter. you can join by tweeting your questions with the hash tag #nofoodwasted to @tomcolicchio. there it is on the screen. you can learn more about food waste and rescue by watching the u.s. premiere of the documentary "just eat it." that's tonight, 10:00 on msnbc. >>> still ahead, a humane way to die or untested method? msnbc's rachel maddow will join me here on set to preview oklahoma's new method of lethal execution that involves zero scientists. >>> when we come back jacob's story. the compelling look at a controversial and courageous decision one family is making for their 5-year-old transgender child. the subject of our bing pulse question of the day, do you think that a preschooler can even understand gender identity? vote at pulse.msnbc.com. 73% of americans try... ...to cook healthy meals. yet up to 90% fall short in getting key nutrients from food alone. let's do more... ...add one a day 50+. complete with key nutrients we may need. plus it supports

. >> famed chef and correspondent tom colicchio on "morning joe" talks about how americans have devaluedood. >> if you go back to grandparents and parents, two generations away, during the great depression where they valued food and then you go after world war ii you started -- fast food became popular, food became cheap and we stopped valuing food. what i found really amazing is that you have 40% waste in the system so it's all this inefficiency but the free market hasn't come in to fix this. >> tom will be taking part in a twitter chat today at 1:00 p.m. eastern time talking about "just eat it" and the no food wasted campaign. just tweet tom with your questions using the hashtag "no food wasted." we'll be right back on "the rundown." we're talking everglades today too, by the way. 73% of americans try... ...to cook healthy meals. yet up to 90% fall short in getting key nutrients from food alone. let's do more... ...add one a day 50+. complete with key nutrients we may need. plus it supports physical energy with b vitamins. one a day 50+ all these networks keep making different claims.

. >> chef tom colicchio is a "today" correspondent. >> happy earth day. >> i'm glad you're drawing attentiono do about it? >> 40% of everything we produce in this country goes in the garbage. either on the farm or in our homes or the supermarket. what we can do about it is draw attention to it and find solutions. i know at home i'm doing something called fridge friday. every friday i clean out the fridge make a soup a pasta. we go to the supermarket and we can buy. we're impulse shoppers. and we don't have a plan for it. so we have to start maybe going shopping more frequently but really having a plan for what we're doing. >> $165 billion a year in wasted food. you think about what that food could do what it could accomplish. right. and during that time we have millions of americans that struggle to feed themselves. >> makes no sense. >> great to have you here. "just eat it" airs 10:00 eastern time on msnbc. >> and how to make sure you're not wasting food share your photos and stories with us. use #no food waste. go right now and share them. >>> all right. al a check of the weather? >> let's