I had an amazing dinner last week at Osteria Mozza (please, I urge you to go there and just try the Il Postino cocktail and perhaps the Beef Brasato with Polenta, so good!  www.mozza-la.com).  I went into the restroom to wash my hands before dinner and I noticed they stock Further hand soap at their sinks.  Further is an awesome product that is made from a sustainable production cycle.  For years, a man named Marshall was picking up waste grease from fine dining resturants and converting it to biofuel in his garage.  His wife Megan, a former event planner for Vogue, noticed he had a ton of glycerin drums lying around in the garage (glycerin is a by-product of the biofuel distillation process).  The couple combined the glycerin with essential oils of Bergamot, Olive, and exotic grasses to create Further hand soap.  The coolest part of this whole story is that they are picking up waste grease from Mozza...which means it is Iron Chef Mario Batali's grease being converted into soap that he is using in his restaurant's restrooms.  Waste not, want not, people!  www.furthersoap.com

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