Filed under: INFO
unearthed is a food brand for people who love to explore through food! What better time to try something new than the New Year? We have loads of recipes and continental specialities to get you started, so have a browse around and discover a world of flavour!
NEW!: you can now watch Silvena Rowe (Saturday Kitchen, Young Chef of the Year) cooking up some of our products with unearthed on YouTube.
Filed under: NEWS | Tags: event, food, fundraising, Haiti, London, Unearthed
The 2010 Haiti earthquake was a catastrophic earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale. The epicentre was near the town of Léogâne, approximately 25 km (16 miles) west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital. An estimated three million people were affected by the quake; Haitian President Rene Preval stated, on 27 January, that “nearly 170,000″ bodies had been counted. Reports claimed that 20,000 commercial buildings and 225,000 residences had collapsed or were severely damaged
Here at unearthed we have tried to do our bit for the victims of the earthquake in Haiti. We’ve provided all the canapés for a big fundraising dinner (http://www.foodepedia.co.uk/restaurant-news/2010/jan/haiti.htm) in London on Monday Feb 8th at the Le Bouchon Breton restaurant, Old Spitalfields Market. All proceeds will be donated to Action Against Hunger and you can also donate on their website at www.aahuk.org.
Tickets are still available so if you feel like going for a delicious meal cooked by celebrity chefs and at the same time do your bit to help the victims of the earthquake why not go along.
Perfect for just picking up and popping into your mouth. Thats what we make them for!
No oil for a mess free snack.
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Filed under: BLOG | Tags: adventure, Arctic, climate change, food, ice warrier, NASA, travel, Unearthed
unearthed will soon be sponsoring friend of the brand Ali Kershaw to take part in the Ice Warrior Expedition, set to begin in March 2010, will be challenging Ali to reach the “Northern Pole of Inaccessibility”, located in the middle of the Arctic Ocean two hundred miles further away from land than the Geographic North Pole. It is widely considered to be the last truly significant place yet to be reached by mankind. The team will also be helping NASA to gather crucial data about the condition of the snow and ice covering the Arctic Ocean in these unexplored areas.
Ali in her training
Ali's jacket that she will be wearing
Here at unearthed, we were really interested in the food that Ali will be eating throughout her travels. Currently in Norway on a training expedition for one month, Ali will get a taster for things ahead. For the first week or so she will be staying in accommodation and training during the day so breakfast and dinner will be quite normal. The second two weeks will see Ali on a live training expedition eating porridge in the mornings with cocoa and sugar for breakfast. During the day she’ll have a “nosebag” which is a bag of food to snack from all day, this will be high energy food like nuts, chocolate, chorizo etc. (we are hoping to provide some unearthed chorizo for the team to munch on). This will be the same diet as the expedition itself, high in calories to see the team through a hard days walk while battling the weather.
Ali will be communicating back home via satellite and this will be linked to her blog (http://arcticali.com/default.htm), where you can follow her travels throughout her expedition as well as seeing photos all the way through the trip. When we spoke to Ali she said the food she would miss the most would be pizza. She also said she will miss her friends, family and her boyfriend Charlie.
Ali and her team trecking through the snow
What food would you miss the most being away from home? Tell us your thoughts!!
Tarte Flambée – part of the rapido range A tasty French Tarte Flambée is great as part of a main meal or a quick and easy snack. This one has lovely smoky flavours, just like the very first flambées cooked by Alsatian bakers at the bottom of their bread ovens where drips would flare around the tarte. Smoky and simply delicious!
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Continental Carrie’s:
- 1. Don’t be fruit fussy. I’m very picky about fruit and if I eat some which isn’t delicious, it puts me off for a long time afterwards. I think snacking on fruit throughout the day would be a good way of making sure I get to my 5 a day, and will save my poor colleagues from my “I’m hungry” moans, so I need to be less fussy.
2. Eat fish. Quite simply I detest sea food. Even fish fingers turn my stomach! Experts and dieticians always talk of the health benefits of eating fish and I feel like I’m missing out. This year I am determined to discover a type of sea food which I enjoy, there must be one out there! Recommendations welcome!
3. Portion control. Quite simply, smaller portions make for a lighter Carrie!
4. Exotic unearthed recipes. I’m really keen on getting our foods into some really unusual recipes which truly work, the kind of recipe which you read and think there is no way the flavours would work together, and then you try it and its sensational. I’ve already started experimenting!
5. Eat less cheese. Cheese is my favourite. I eat too much. I need to eat less, I am sure my waistline will appreciate it!
Student Sophie’s:
1. Eat more exotic fruit- start making some yummy fruit salads’, being a student means fruit is not on the top of your shopping list, so I’m going to try and take advantage of this year and get a bit healthier
2. Cut down on the pasta- I seem to crave carbs all the time, I think I need to start eating a little less pasta and experiment more with noodles and rice. I love Thai food so I’m going to start making some curries this year.
3. Use chorizo in more recipes- I absolutely love chorizo especially the chorizo spaghetti Bolognese, so this year I’m going to be a bit more adventurous and try some new exciting recipes. (Watch out for these on our recipe page).
Suitcase Simon’s:
1. Try it 10 Times – my mum always used to tell me if I tried it 10 times I would eventually like it, so this year that’s what I’m going to do. My current battle at the moment is Okra, I will grow to love it by the end of this year!!
2. Experiment more- When going to visit foreign places I always try something different that I have never tried on the menu, however in the UK I don’t, so this year that’s my resolution.
3. Eat more vegetables- I’m moving house in February , so now that I’m going to have a bigger garden I’m going to start growing my own vegetables, then I really don’t have an excuse for not eating them.
