The good news first.... The recent furore about the cost of gluten-free food on prescription (see my post here and endless comment elsewhere in the media) has had some good fall out. Despite the fact that the figures quoted on Newsnight and elsewhere did appear to have been …
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@HealthJourno joins @FoodsMatter team!
We are delighted to announce that @HealthJourno, better known to many of you as Alex Gazzola, coeliac commentator, blogger, paid-up Italian-Welsh foodie, cake-lover, FreeFrom Food Awards judge and 'voyeur' of the annual FreeFrom Food Awards 'bash', deputy editor of …
Coeliac injustice?
Yesterday we received the following email: I am a coeliac, have been for 31 years. When I was diagnosed the bread was tinned and things have progressed a lot since then. My friend recently became coeliac, and gets a prescription from the same doctors' surgery as I do, but …
Mobiles banned from the table at posh restaurant!
I am certainly not against mobile phones as such – they have delivered massive benefits to millions of people worldwide but – I am definitely against their indiscriminate, 24/7 use. (And, by the way, I am very keen for all those clever scientists to find a way of transmitting the …
Not just the slugs that are out to ‘get’ edible plants…
Following on from the sad tale of my parsley's demise.... An edible garden designed by designing-edible-gardens.com I have just, rather belatedly, been catching up on the far sadder tale of Denise Morrison of …