Established in Bali in December 2002, Down to Earth was originally a home-based kitchen. The company idea is home made vegetarian food that is individually packed and delivered fresh daily to various outlets around Bali. The food maintains high standards of preparation and extensive nutritional knowledge. Liat Solomon (the founder and director) is a trained nutritionalist, macrobiotic educator/counselor and vegetarian chef. The food maintains high standards of preparation and extensive nutritional knowledge.
Our staff are trained, not only in the food preparation, hygiene and environmental consciousness, but to apply changes in their own lives so we can help them grow and evolve with the company. Sourcing and using the right ingredients is an important task. Most of the dry goods such as chickpeas and sesame tahina are imported, and the vegetables are locally grown organic as possible. Spring water is used for washing and sorting of the vegetables. Each and every ingredient that is put in is well thought out and the natural components are chosen by their quality. Hand harvested organic Sea Salt is used as a salting agent and as a natural preservative. Our products contain no food coloring, preservatives nor flavor enhancers.
After relocating to our new home in 2005, We began to really focus on our working environment for DTE. We do our best to treat our food right with love and care. The quality of care, attention and respect for the food, that is given during its preparation, is as important as the quality of the ingredients. Humor is another element that is used in preparation in our food. Most of the original DTE staff is still with the company and regard DTE as their home away from home. Our belief in the companys ideas assist in the daily hardship and our families are fed better thanks to new acquired knowledge and understanding.
In 2006, DTE gave birth to its first restaurant ZULA vegetarian paradise. Zula gave DTEs kitchen the opportunity to practice the art of vegetarian cooking. Zula is also a health food shop that imports a wide variety of natural and health products.
Down to Earths goal is to be a part of a global change and to help reshape the future through nutrition and environmental consciousness.
DTE products are suitable for all ages, for most diet regimes and favorable on every palette.
Macrobiotics is a way of living with respect for the physical, biological, emotional, mental, ecological and spiritual order of the universe and the adaptation of it all into our daily lives.
Beginning with regulating your daily eating and drinking that is the most basic, practical way to change your own condition. The food you eat becomes your blood, affecting the quality of your cells, tissues, organs and your mind. Properly nourished your body, heart and mind can more easily cleanse and renew themselves and restore personal health.
Macrobiotics starts with balancing your diet as the foundation for a healthy and happy life but all in all it means striving to create harmony in all aspect of daily life with a personal commitment to self-reflection and change, and active lifestyle.
