The first Food Matters Live 'event' happened over three days last week at the Excel exhibition centre in London's Docklands – and an 'event' it certainly was! Anyone and everyone in the food/food-health/food-policy world was there – as a speaker or a participant in one of the …
Big Business
New drugs for coeliacs – is this a good idea?
This feels like a very lazy way of writing a blog – but I do not believe in re-inventing the wheel so, if Alex has already said it, and said it well, why would I say it again? In fact, on this occasion, it is not only Alex but one of his 'commenters', GlutenfreeB, who has said it …
Liverpool and the Allergy Show score again!
Cressida and I have just had a fab weekend! We have been at the Liverpoool Allergy and FreeFrom show – right here in the Albert Dock in the centre of Liverpool….. Now for me to say that I have had a fab w/e at a show is quite something as, although I do realise that they are a …
BT Fon
You may remember that some months ago I was having a fine old rant about BT piggy backing their '5 million hotspots' on the back of all of our wifi routers? Well, the subject has not gone away and a few days ago there was a comment added to the post from Barney LaCat and …
Freefrom and the multinationals
As a post script to my earlier blog on the YouGov freefrom survey – Asda have, this week, launched the new Nestlé gluten-free cornflakes in the main breakfast cereal aisles of their stores. This raises two interesting questions. Is this the start of serious engagement on the part …