Having just reduced the third saucepan this week to a blackened remnant of its former self, I know what I want for Christmas – a Thermomix! Yes, I know it looks like a cartoon character in the making – but it genuinely is an amazing creature – the result of over 40 years of …
Food
Cookery curiosities at the Guildhall
Courtesy of the Guild of Food Writers, I took a lovely trip down Memory Lane last night. Actually, both down my own personal lane and down through the history of English cookbooks. The occasion was a talk by Peter Ross, Principal Librarian at the Guildhall Library in charge of …
Total food intolerance – a lethal condition
'Less than a year ago I was a bright, happy, energetic, slightly overweight 45 year old. Now I am a shadow of my former self. My husband and children are worried sick about me, I am having to re-home my beloved dog as I can no longer walk him and and I so fear that my days are …
Cycling for allergy
Well done Ashley James – brother to four-year-old Edward who, along with their mum, has life-threatening allergies. Ashley, who suffers from asthma himself, is 13 but is already an old hand at awareness raising as, with all of the rest of his family, he took part in the Bupa …
Dairy disappointment
From all the headlines over the last few weeks, dairy allergics could not be blamed for thinking that all their problems had been solved – if Australian A2 milk did not do it for them, then Daisy, the hypo-allergenic New Zealand cow certainly would... But, alas, beyond the hype, …