A report on the radio last night suggested that the horse in your lasagne could have gone through around 12 'virtual' hands as it was traded from Romania (where there is a glut of horsemeat as horse-drawn carts have been banned from the highways) to Italy, to France, to Poland to …
Bad medicine: food intolerance
A few days ago Alex Gazzola pointed me to an article in the current issue of the BMJ by Dr Des Spence, a GP in Glasgow, laying into both the 'allergy industry' and the food industry for promoting food intolerance as a way to make money. You can read the article here and comment …
Gluten-free product placement!
Now that's what we like to see – a decent bit of product placement... Christine of Christine's Puddings dropped off some of her entries for this week's FreeFrom Food Awards judging sessions this afternoon, having come hot foot from Southampton where she had been delivering …
FreeFrom Food Awards judging in full swing
Kim McGowan, Frank Bordoni and Hulya Erdal in serious discussion. Well, we are through the first week of judging for the FreeFrom Food Awards and it has proved as exciting (in terms of new products) and as interesting (in terms of judges' views) as ever! From a judge's point …
Non-coeliac gluten sensitivity gains full recognition
A few years ago it was only a few way out, wacky souls – Dr Peter Osborne and his Gluten Free Society in the US, Micki Rose and a handful of nutritional therapists in the UK – who were suggesting that maybe 'classic' coeliac disease (reacting only to the gluten in wheat, …