Those lovely people at F2F (aka the Allergy and FreeFrom show) threw a party for us exhibitors yesterday – which was extremely nice of them! And not only did they feed us a very tasty lunch, but they told us some extremely useful stuff about the shows themselves and threw in a …
Brief thoughts about the latest tragic death from anaphylaxis
Many of you will have read about the tragic death of 18-year-old Owen Carey last month from anaphylactic shock. All our sympathy goes, of course, to Owen's family and friends, all so pointlessly bereaved. But yet again Owen's death can only reinforce the Anaphylaxis …
Coeliac Awareness Week and ‘real’ bread
There is a whole load more huff and puff in today's press following the ESPGHAN report suggesting that gluten-free products are higher in fat and lower in protein than non GF products. Well yes, they often are – but far less so than five years ago – and good progress is being …
Harvesting seaweed in County Sligo
Just off Streedagh beach looking onto Donegal Bay – the most amazing collection of edible seaweeds: sugar kelp, dulse, sea spaghetti, pepper dulse, carrageenan, sea lettuce, velvet horn, bladderwrack, alaria and a very pretty pink seaweed (erect coralline) which is also pure …
Italian attitudes to ‘freefrom’
I recently received an email from Italy, from Caroline Hamilton, an Australian freelance journalist who lives and works in Italy – and we then had the following exchange. It would be very interesting to know whether any of you agree with our reading of the situation in Italy – …