Very soon we will be announcing the 2015 Freefrom Food Awards (entry opens in mid September) and our new charity for 2014, FoodCycle. FoodCycle asked us to write a blog for their site about why we had chosen them as our charity for 2015 - and I have just realised that it should …
Food
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 …
The battle of the supermarkets – again…
This morning Derby City Council was reported as calling for a tax of up to £400 million to be imposed on the larger supermarkets, the money to be spent on regenerating the town centres which have suffered so badly as a result of supermarket expansion. Such a scheme, known as the …
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 …
Regulating for health – to nanny or not to nanny
I went to an extremely interesting FABResearch conference last week – Sugar, Fat & Addiction: New Approaches to the Public Health Crisis; I will be reporting on the medical aspects in next week's newsletter. However, two of the presentations focused not on the medical aspects …