My lovely friend David Fleming, he of Lean Logic, a dictionary for the future and how to survive it, had an unshakable belief that if you just left human beings to sort things out for themselves, they would do so. Two stories that have just come my way bear him out.... So, to …
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Becoming Truly Gluten Free
Despite a dose of Jury service and three months hard study, Micki Rose continues an endless flow on posts on the TrulyGlutenFree site. Her TGF diet must be working for her to be able to keep up such a work rate! Alerts about prawns (did you know that they can be fed on soya …
Clarissa Dickson Wright’s History of English Food
This is the book that I was setting out to write 25 years ago when I got side tracked into 'special diets' – but Clarissa has done it so much better than I could ever have done that I am really quite glad that I got distracted.... It is hard to pull such a huge canvas – a mere …
Should allergens be banned from a household with an allergic member?
I just came across an article from an recent Sunday Telegraph headlined 'Food fight over allergy ban' which investigated, once again, the extremely knotty problem of whether or not you should allow allergens into a household with an allergic member. There are in fact, two …
All Christmas go….
We are currently being submerged by a tidal wave of Christmas products – so you must excuse me if I do not pass comment on the greater happenings in the world for a day or two... This is partly because the first judging for the 2012 FreeFromFood Awards happens next week – for …