Marketing people and all of those 'innovation agencies' get very exercised these days about 'generations' – the Baby Boomers, Gen X, the Millennials..... What they believe, what they care about, how they behave and, crucially, what they buy. But is this just hype or does when you …
Food
‘The Green House That Almost Killed Me’
Interesting blog post from Elana Amsterdam, a best selling New York blogger and 'freefrom' cookery writer, whose renovation of a 100-year-old house to be totally 'green' in its energy use had a disastrous effect on her multiple sclerosis. Not because of its green energy but …
How to get the best out of an exhibition….
Those lovely people at F2F (aka the Allergy and FreeFrom show) threw a party for us exhibitors yesterday – which was extremely nice of them! And not only did they feed us a very tasty lunch, but they told us some extremely useful stuff about the shows themselves and threw in a …
Brief thoughts about the latest tragic death from anaphylaxis
Many of you will have read about the tragic death of 18-year-old Owen Carey last month from anaphylactic shock. All our sympathy goes, of course, to Owen's family and friends, all so pointlessly bereaved. But yet again Owen's death can only reinforce the Anaphylaxis …
Harvesting seaweed in County Sligo
Just off Streedagh beach looking onto Donegal Bay – the most amazing collection of edible seaweeds: sugar kelp, dulse, sea spaghetti, pepper dulse, carrageenan, sea lettuce, velvet horn, bladderwrack, alaria and a very pretty pink seaweed (erect coralline) which is also pure …