Spices that travel!

Monday, March 8^th, 2010, Netcast 1041

At the Green Products Expo I meet Holly McWhorter, creator of The Mobile Foodie Survival Kit. Holly originally designed it for Frequent Travelers who had to face dreadful airline food, hotel food, or terrible local restaurant food. She decided to come up with an easy way to 'save the dreadful meals and make them taste a lot better'. She did that by creating the Mobile Foodie Survival Kit. It’s a pocketsize set of organic seasonings that are essential for any foodie on the go. It includes sixteen organic herbs and spices, plus wasabi, soy sauce and a mini-bottle of... wait for it... Tabasco! In the big kit you’ll find organic basil, cayenne, cinnamon, ground cloves, curry, dill, granulated garlic, ginger, mustard powder, nutmeg, onion powder, oregano, paprika, pepper, and thyme; plus sea salt, wasabi powder, soy sauce and Tabasco sauce. For 2010 they have come up with smaller, regional specialty kits for Thai, Indian and Mexican. All seasonings are organically grown and the kits are made in New York City by a team of developmentally and other mentally challenged adults. The program is under the supervision of professionals trained in working with the mentally challenged, at the Manhattan packaging and assembly workshop of the nonprofit AHRC. All the herbs and spices in the kit are USDA-certified organic (not including the wasabi, which is so expensive in organic form that the kit would be prohibitively expensive itself), and come from a farming co-op in Oregon that is dedicated to sustainable farming practices. At this point the Tabasco and soy sauce in the kit are conventional, but that will change at the earliest opportunity. Holly adds: “By buying a Mobile Foodie Survival Kit, you are supporting not only sustainable, organic farming practices, but also the gainful employment and sense of well-being of the disabled adults who made it. The farmers, the workers and I offer you a heartfelt...THANK YOU!” The complete kit is $35. The regional kits are $20. 

www.foodiekits.com    or www.uncommongoods.com 

Hear this Netcast: www.twit.tv/dgw1041