Those who have been following the Alpro defensive nut warnings saga will be glad to hear that some progress has been made. (For those who have no idea what I am talking about, see this post and this one.) An article in the Grocer on Wednesday told us that, 'following …
Food
In memoriam Clarissa
I was so sorry this morning to read of the death of Clarissa Dickson Wright, an amazing lady of massive character and courage – a splendidly non-PC advocate of good food, good living and English country life. I never knew her well, and I never knew her in her drinking days, …
FreeFrom Skincare Awards
Cressida and I have been pretty focused on organising the FreeFrom Food Awards party on March 25th, but even we could not have ignored the ever bigger deliveries of samples arriving on a daily basis for Alex – not only our social media 'man' but the coordinator of the FreeFrom …
Pancake Syndrome
How appropriate the day before Shrove Tuesday! I have just been reading the Anaphylaxis Campaign's excellent new factsheet on Idiopathic Anaphylaxis (the really scary one in which no one can work out what triggered your anaphylactic attack) and I came across this: Flour …
Marmalade time – unsticking the labels…..
Last week I got this rant fromt an old friend.... It is marmalade time of year and once again I have now twice spent a good half hour scrubbing jam jars – trying to get off the label residues. I bought that idiotic de-sticking stuff or whatever it’s called – which doesn’t do …