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Indian Street Food Supper Club


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Food Revolution Day was about raising money, awareness and motivation. According to the World Health Organization, worldwide obesity has more than doubled since 1980, nearly 43 million children under the age of five are overweight and 2.8 million people die every year from being obese or overweight. Yet, obesity is preventable. Jamie Oliver's vision for food revolution day is to change the way people eat by educating children about food from an early age, giving them and their families the skills and knowledge to cook better food and motivating them to stand up for their rights for better food.
 
A number of our Urban Myth team had the pleasure of both supporting the cause and the chance to enjoy some amazing Indian Street Food prepared by private chef and food writer Maunika Gowardhan whilst the wine for the evening was chosen and donated by Passione Vino. With some of Jamie's office staff, volunteers and and ex graduate from the Fifteen programme running the evening, serving the food and generally looking after everybody, it was a truly great evening!
 
Information of Food Revolution Day can be found here
Maunika Gowardhan's food blog can be found here (it's a gem)
 


Food Revolution Day


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Food Revolution Day on 19 May is a chance for people who love food to come together to share information, talents and resources; to pass on their knowledge and highlight the world’s food issues. All around the globe, people will work together to make a difference. Food Revolution Day is about connecting with your community through events at schools, restaurants, local businesses, dinner parties and farmers' markets. We want to inspire change in people’s food habits and to promote the mission for better food and education for everyone.
 
Go check this brill concept out on their website


Bloomin' Marvelous


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Potato chips are usually packaged in one of two ways, a sealed bag or, like my favourite ones, a tube (you know the ones I mean), this tube however can create a problem. Once you get a third of the way down the stack, getting to the other chips can be a noisy affair. Getting to the ones at the very bottom, well that's a different story all together (think; the scene in Clerks where Dante helps the stolid customer free his stuck hand from the Pringles tube saying 'sometimes you just have to let the ones at the bottom go').
There may be a solution...Korean designer Dohyuk Kwon and his team have created this rather smart packaging called Bloom Chips. In the form of a wrinkled cylinder, the tube 'blooms' into a bowl when opened. While Kwon says 'It's mechanism is more complex than it looks, simply speaking it's like a blooming flower'. Kwon has won a Red Dot Award for his design.


Boomerang Wok


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There are loads of new pan designs out there and, while the choice in design is undoubtedly wider than ever before, few of these new deigns are what you'd call innovative. I mean, a pan is a pan right? Apart from size, materian and colour, what else is there? Designer Nikolaï Carels for Dutch company RoyalVKB has come up with this, the Boomerang Wok. Created to take away that tedious part of stir-frying, the cleaning up of all the bits you spilt from the pan when, well, stir-frying. We've all been there, trying to be all clever whilst cooking, quickly tossing food around with a spatula and getting stray bits of vegetables and meat all over the cooktop. Boomerang has a neatly designed cupped edge which takes away all the hassle by helping you flip the food just by stirring it around the edge.
We think it's a pretty neat idea.
 
More information can be found here http://www.royalvkb.com/productdet.asp?catid=1332#


Sorapot


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New York designer Joey Roth brings us Soprapot. A truly unique, modern and beautifully designed teapot. Made from high quality 304 grade stainless steel and pyrex. Designed with an emphasis on sustainability, Sorapot is completely pigment and paint free and even better, entirely recyclable...even it's box is re-cycled. It may not be the cheapest teapot around but...it looks great, tea is really good for you and it's environmentally green ... Could you ask for anything more?
 
Visit www.sorapot.com for more info!