So this is what FreeFrom Food Awards judges get up to, is it? Licking ice cream cones!! But – this is a gluten and dairy-free cone.... That make it any better? It was one of a number 'ice cream' entries into this year's dessert category – along with some raw chocolate ices and a …
‘Gluten free’ versus ‘freefrom gluten’
Worrying about precise definitions is not something that comes naturally to me – I am more of a broad brush sort of person. So many are the arguments that I have with Alex, the acme of precision in definitions terms – and many are the rude names that I have called him when, yet …
Using plants to teach about allergy
I have talked before about how the amazing Nigel Clarke is aiming to turn beautiful Guernsey into a low allergen island, basing his work on Tom Ogren's OPALS Allergy plant scale. (For those of you who have not heard of Tom, he is the creator of the OPALS scale, a …
The rise and fall of sliced bread – and the evils of food additives
Two of John Scott's research reports last week, although not directly related, caught my eye. The first was an article in the Daily Mail quoting a recent Mintel report about sliced bread and its decline in popularity – well, relative decline at least. Eighty per cent of the UK …
Brain antics
Have you read 'The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat'? If you haven't, and you are at all interested in the human brain and the extraordinary knots into which it can tie itself, then you certainly should. 'The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat' is probably the best known, …