Kirkwall Harbour last Monday evening – a truly wonderful sunset followed on Tuesday by glorious blue skies showcasing the Orkney mainland's rolling fields and many lochs at their best. (It didn’t last…. By Wednesday the mists had come down restricting visibility to about …
Cooking/kitchen equipment
Olympia Allergy Show 2016
I'm afraid that after three days of an Olympia exhibition – even one as good as the Allergy Show – you are slightly losing contact with reality, as you can see! This is Alex, Cressida and Kathy (of the FreeFrom Eating Out Awards – our newest recruit) 'being' FFA – FreeFrom …
Indigo and the pathfinder Award
Last October the freefrom social media scene got very excited. Indigo, the restaurant at top Covent Garden Hotel One Aldwych, had announced that, when it had re-opened three months earlier after a major refurbishment of their kitchens, it had done so with an entirely gluten and …
FreeFrom Food Awards at the seaside!!
So this is what FreeFrom Food Awards judges get up to, is it? Licking ice cream cones!! But – this is a gluten and dairy-free cone.... That make it any better? It was one of a number 'ice cream' entries into this year's dessert category – along with some raw chocolate ices and a …
Has Brussels destroyed the creativity of our chefs?
Well, here we are – a year on from the imposition of Brussel's draconian allergen regulations on the catering industry.... Yet, have we seen mass closures of restaurants – or lemming-like swarms of suicidal chefs, their ‘spontaneity, creativity and innovation’ destroyed, racing …