As you might have noticed from the dearth of recent blogs, the last two weeks have been heavily taken up with freefrom food events – first the first European FreeFrom trade show in Germany, then the Allergy and Freefrom Show (complete with the presentation of the Freefrom …
Coeliac/celiac disease
They have finally done it! Pizza Express goes gluten-free!
Pizza Express has always been my favourite pizza restaurant. Maybe it is because there has always been a lovely friendly branch literally four minutes walk from my front door. (My son's favourite take-away throughout his childhood was a 'margherita with extra tuna and …
The challenges of freefrom catering
All those restaurants who are already seriously nervous about the new 2014 allergy declarations will have been sent into a blue funk by the fate of Jamie's Italian in Portsmouth. They have just pleaded guilty to 'selling food not of the nature and quality demanded by the …
Egg-free, gluten-free, dairy-free apple cake for Easter Sunday!
Those on egg-free diets have a really frustrating time. Because there are relatively few of them (nowhere near as many as are on gluten or dairy-free diets), they tend to get sidelined, both in terms of recipes and 'made' products. So, with the prospect of a nice Easter …
2013 FreeFrom Skincare Awards shortlist – bathing in beauty balms!
A very small selection of the 200+ products that were entered into this year's FreeFrom Skincare Awards – and which we spent two very long, balm-filled and fragrant days judging last week. By the end of day two my right arm had been 'polished' (with the aid of salt, sugar and nut …