Last week at the Food and Drink Innovation Network's annual FreeFrom seminar, Chef Dominic Teague explained how he came, last year, to relaunch Indigo, the much-loved restaurant at five star West End hotel, One Aldwych with a totally gluten and dairy free menu. A menu, be it …
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University caterers take up the challenge
In my last sad blog about Livvy I also mentioned that following on from my talk at the TUCO (The University Caterers' Organisation) conference there were several initiatives afoot to improve the provision of safe freefrom food for allergic and coeliac students starting …
The tragedy of young death
I have often written in this blog about friends and colleagues who have died. But they have all been either of great age, like Dr Harry Morrow Brown, or have at least lived out their three score years and ten – Cartoon Christopher, Clarissa Dickson Wright, David Fleming. So …
Partying….
August, theoretically a month of rest, seems to have been particularly hectic this year... However, we did take a day off last weekend for the traditional summer party, blessed this year by the most glorious day. (Last year we were all huddled in the kitchen around bowls of very …
‘The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about’
Or, to rephrase Oscar Wilde, 'all publicity is good publicity'. But is it? That was what was bothering Tom Treverton as he was putting together the programme for his trade conference at this year's Allergy + FreeFrom show. And it was bothering him particularly in the context of …