I do love Victorian ironwork. Whether it is the soaring arches of St Pancras Station, the Palm House at Kew or – the Grand Hall at Olympia. And, in terms of 'grand', you cannot get much grander than The Grand Hall at Olympia. The roof, 115 feet high and constructed from 85 …
Coeliac/celiac disease
Roundup and autism – is there a link?
Simple explanations for complex problems are always very tempting but they rarely prove to be the answer. This is especially true in our modern medical world where diverse, debilitating and ever more common conditions such as allergy, coeliac disease, Parkinsons, MS, ME and …
‘Now EU wants allergy alerts on all menus’ – well, no…
Prue Leith hit the headlines in the Daily Mail this week when she condemned the new allergen regulations for food service coming into force in December as a 'bureaucratic nightmare' that will 'kill innovation and experimentation in the kitchen and cooking what is available daily …
Hands off my food!!!
When we asked Ruth and Sue to contribute an allergy diary and a coeliac's diary to our websites it was very much with the idea of giving those of us who are lucky enough not to have to live with either life threatening allergies or coeliac disease a window onto what it was like …
Causing gluten confusion…
Many people are still having a problem getting their heads around the 'new' regulations that came into force in January 2013 : that to be called 'gluten-free' a food must have under 20 parts per million (ppm) of gluten and to be called 'very low gluten' it must have under 100 …