The Pure Package is a premium, food delivery delivery service based in London. Their angle is to deliver a complete days eating programme of healthy and nutritionally balanced food. I have to admit that images of bland, tasteless meals were conjured up in my mind. However, and to my great surprise, I couldn’t have been more wrong. The whole experience was a complete delight.
It began with a pleasant phone call from Zoe at Pure Package who asked me a series of questions about my diet, weight, height, intolerances etc. As a thirty year old with a worryingly expanding girth, I probably underestimated a little on the weight - ok a lot and my diet probably sounded almost utopian. However, Zoe patiently stayed with me and probably new that this wasn’t the honed athlete I had led her to believe! Nonetheless, I was assured that a cooler bag full of highly nutritious goodies would arrive on my doorstep at 6am the following Wednesday. I waited with great anticipation. Could a service used by such luminaries as Hugh Jackman AKA Wolverine no less and Patsy Kensit, be as good as the billing.
As good as their word, my Pure Package Cooler bag arrived on Wednesday morning. The poor soul who delivers these exquisite packages across London must have a wholly nocturnal existence!
My menu for that day comprised the following:
(My comments on each component are in italics)
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The Château Lagrézette wine holder is a must have for all wine connoisseurs. Château Lagrézette, famous for its rich, red malbec wines from the Cahors region has designed this stunning wine and glass holder for alfresco dinners and picnics.
It is hand crafted in olive tree wood with a plexy glass plate to hold even the best crystal in place, the holder can be secured in to grass or soft ground with a pole that reaches table height, allowing diners easy access to bottles without the risk of red wine stains all over the table.
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Last week a record was set, Hong Kong sushi restaurant owner paid £25,000 for a single bluefin tuna. The fish was caught off coast of Japan’s northern city of Aomori and weighed in at 607 pounds – that’s approx £50 per pound!
The auction took place in the world’s largest fish market in central Tokyo. According to market officials, the record price was caused by a sharp decline in world tuna supply due to tighter international controls on the catch for bluefin tuna.
At present, the Japanese eat one quarter of the world’s total supply of tuna fish each year. Of course, this why bluefin tuna will most likely be extinct sometime in the next fifty years.
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Posted by Tom Wilkins on Thu 10th January 2008 at 04:24 AM, Filed in Luxury Food
I’m drooling just writing about it, Belgian Chocolate Covered Popcorn is the fantastic invention of a company called Fudgie Wudgie in the States.
There’s not a lot to tell you… it says what it is on the tin, just thought you may like your popcorn with a twist!
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Posted by Bob Bulmer on Thu 27th December 2007 at 01:11 AM, Filed in Luxury Food
Apologies for the cheesy heading, I couldn’t believe someone would pay £42 for a jar of honey making it the most expensive honey in the world. You can pick up a jar at Harrods if it tickles your fancy and you have more money than sense.
So what do you get: 120g of honey made by bees fed on a special diet including herbs such as Siberian ginseng and echinacea. Apparently it has a strong taste similar to manuka honey and is made without artificial ingredients.
The honey, which is made in Israel, is supposed to be eaten by the teaspoonful in the morning and at night.
Hmmmm… I’m not convinced, send me a jar and that may change!
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