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The Extraordinary Foods |
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Hello, my name is Leon Aarts and welcome to our portfolio of extraordinary and discerning foods.
I am the Chief Food Officer for Extraordinary Food and you are in safe hands having spent my whole |
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| life in fine food, first as a chef in top restaurants, then as a supplier of fine foods direct to top chefs and restaurants, Gordon Ramsay for example. |
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At Extraordinary Food my team and I have spent a huge amount of time having fun and finding Extraordinary Food products with an an amazing story. Foods made not only with our own wellbeing in mind, but also the planet and how we can help others. We have sourced products that are either organic or ethically and sustainably produced but most of all, products which give much of their proceeds back to the people who have produced them.
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| On this page here are some of those stories to inspire and inform you of the great products we have found and the extraordinary stories behind them. |
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Tony's Chocolonely Tony's Factory wants to make the first and only slave free chocolate in the world.he whole world can enjoy.Most of the |
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people involved in cocoa production do not get much enjoyment out of their work. Their working conditions are terrible and they are not paid an honest wage for a good day's work.
In 2002, Teun van de Keuken, a TV journalist, read an article on abuses in the chocolate industry. According to the article, hundreds of thousands of children are forced to work on cocoa plantations in Ivory Coast, which is where most cocoa comes from. They receive no pay for their labour and are unable to leave the plantations. According to the UN, that is slavery.
Teun decided to do some research and found out that most chocolate is a mix of cocoa from different countries and that most chocolate contains cocoa from Ivory Coast. In other words, most of the chocolate sold by your local supermarket contains cocoa produced by slaves.
That is when he decided to make Tony's Chocolonely
The first and only slave free chocolate in the world.
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Palestinian Olive Oil
All of Zaytoun's oil is extra virgin, first cold pressed, organically grown and fairly traded.Zaytoun, are pleased to promote the Trees for Life programme. |
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| This gives people in the UK the chance to sponsor the planting of olive trees, which partially offsets the destruction wrought by the Israeli army and settlers in many of the groves. Settlement and settlement road building and the construction of the Separation Wall have seen hundreds of thousands of trees bulldozed and cut down. 500,000 olive trees have been destroyed since 2000. Each new tree sponsored represents a long-term source of income for Palestinian families, who have been harvesting olive oil, fruit and wood for generations. Details of the scheme can be found on the neck tags on some of their bottles. |
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Southern Alps
At Southern Alps we are committed to ensuring everyone benefits from our Slow Dried Fruit. A good example of this is how we produce our Slow Dried Organic Mango. In Burkina Faso, Africa, we found Claude. Claude's aim in life is to help people in Burkina Faso generate healthy, sustainable businesses from their local natural resources.
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During the 3 month harvesting season, small teams of women wash, cut and slowly dry organic mango to our specification. We are very proud to say that the income that they earn enables their families to send their children to school.
Claude has also set up teams to support families who have lost their main bread winner - which is common due to HIV/AIDS. The work goes well beyond drying mangoes! In the 9 months outside the harvesting season, these workers are trained in sewing. The wage they earn producing our mango allows them to save money. After 3 years they have enough to buy their own sewing machine, and enough training to become a tailor.
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Belu Water
100% profits to clean water projects
A quarter of the world's population does not have access to clean water. Belu was launched to change this. Every bottle sold provides clean water for one person for one month!
Belu has been working with WaterAid to create lasting solutions for the provision of clean water, sanitation, and hygiene education. Projects include bringing facilities
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like traditional well improvement, water pump rehabilitation and the provision of sanitation facilities, such as pit latrines, into eight villages of Yelekebougou, Mali, West Africa and benefiting 10,000 in the Tanjore District of Tamil Nadu, India.
Belu is also launching an "adopt-a-stream" project with London based schools and currently designing and building a "rubbish muncher" on the Thames that will remove a ton of waste a week from the river! ?...Helping to clean up the problem a bit closer to home too!
The UK's first compostable bottle
Belu didn't want to add to the 150,000 tons of PET bottles that go to landfill every year. So they launched the UK's first compostable bottle onto the market -100% made from corn and it can be recycled or commercially composted back to soil in just 8 weeks!
The penguins approve!
Belu is reducing its impact on the climate by bottling water in the UK, converting to wind power and offsetting all remaining CO2 emissions. As a result, Belu is the first bottled water not to melt the ice caps! The penguins approve!
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If you have a product with an interesting story and would like it to be a part of the Extraordinary Food portfolio, email us at eat@extraordinaryfood.co.uk |
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