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 …
Coeliac/celiac disease
FreeFrom holds the floor
I realise, with horror, that it is well over a week since I even looked at this blog – but I blame it all on 'freefrom'..... It has, indeed, been a heavy couple of freefrom weeks: the closure of the entry for the FreeFrom Eating Out Awards on August 31st, an exciting webinar …
The benefits of dedication
Alpro's decision not to combine the manufacture their nut and their soya milks on one line is very good news – not just for those mums of nut- and dairy-allergic children who campaigned so hard to make them change their minds, but for the allergen-free food world in general. (For …
Costa ‘freefrom’ a rave success
About a year ago I had lunch with one of our FreeFrom Food Awards judges who wanted me to meet Hannah MacKay, Costa Coffee's 'Savoury Development Manager'. Costa were seriously considering putting a gluten-free sandwich/wrap/panini into their shops and she felt that maybe I could …
Pomegranates, blueberries, Japanese wine berries and bees – in King’s Cross…
These days, King's Cross is awash in vertical flower walls, canal side walkways and gushing fountains but across the railway tracks in the industrial park, nature is in a better established, more productive mode. Way back in 1985, when King's Cross was seedy backwater inhabited …