Almost as far back as I can remember in terms of FoodsMatter – way back in the '90s indeed – I recall talking to Claire Magee at 'Nanny Care' about their problems in getting their goat milk infant formula recognised by the EU. Over the years I all but gave up asking how the …
Allergies
Pancake Syndrome
How appropriate the day before Shrove Tuesday! I have just been reading the Anaphylaxis Campaign's excellent new factsheet on Idiopathic Anaphylaxis (the really scary one in which no one can work out what triggered your anaphylactic attack) and I came across this: Flour …
Celeriac…….
Is that not truly magnificent? I must admit that, when it arrived from Farm Direct, I was not even sure what it was, it was so enormous – and so muddy.... But a celeriac it surely was and, in due course, it got turned into a fine selection of celeriac-based dishes. I feel that …
The sports dilemma
Sport is good. We all know that. It keeps children fit, gets them out into the fresh air, gives them something to do other than hang around and join gangs and get into trouble. It also quite genuinely gives them a good reason to eat healthily and look after themselves and …
Random post judging thoughts – including Tesco!
Theoretically things should have calmed down a bit once the FFFood Awards judging was over but somehow..... Well, first there was the shortlist to get out (see here for which products made it onto the shortlist), then there were the press releases related to the shortlist. We …