I spent the weekend with my lovely friend, Italian cookery writer Anna del Conte and, just as happens every time I stay with her, I was left speechless by how wonderful the simplest of food can taste in the right hands. For lunch on Saturday, for which we had guests, we had …
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FreeFrom Food Awards shortlist is out!!
Hectic - but hey - that's what it's all about!! The 2012 FreeFrom FoodAwards shortlist was published this morning – and almost instantly our internet connection went down! So all those keen shortlisted manufacturers, dying to get their hands on their logo and a press release to …
Living with eczema
Those of us lucky enough to have relatively normal skin all pay lip service to 'how awful it must be to have bad eczema' and 'those poor little children' with weeping, open sores. (Pictures courtesy of Dr Harry Morrow Brown.) And indeed we do feel genuinely sympathetic – but how …
Snow….
The Lawn Road garden snowed and iced in.... Although now the sun is shining!! More here. …
Judging the 2012 FreeFrom Food Awards – fascinating and rewarding
Kate Hawkings (food writer) and Louise Marchionne (allergy therapist) 'working on' category 12 – scones, sweet tarts, sweet biscuits, cookies etc. Like last year’s, this year’s judging for the FreeFrom Food Awards was a thoroughly enjoyable, if somewhat exhausting, experience! …