No matter how you cut it, judging for the FreeFrom Food Awards is not something you can do over Zoom. While sending out parcels of five or even ten products to judges might be feasible, sending out parcels of 50 certainly would not be. Even if the numbers were manageable, we …
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Sad, sad news
Yesterday evening, Lisa Acton - co founder, with her husband John Burke, of the Irish FreeFrom Food Awards – finally lost a long and heroic battle with cancer. To my regret I had only met her a few times. A couple of years ago when John brought the whole family to a FreeFrom …
The latest addition….
Everyone knows about my earring collection – both gathered together over the years and donated by friends from all over the world. It now adorns lampshades around my living room. But I am delighted to say that earrings are the gift that goes on giving and I have now moved …
Gobsmacked – and very, very touched
Thanks to a temporary halt in my building works I am currently in sole possession of an eight bedroom, four storey house. So, since Cressida was coming here for an awards update, and my brother in law David had to come to London on business, we thought we could use my many floors …
Rethinking the Children’s category
Ever since we launched it in 2013 the Children's category in the FreeFrom Food Awards had been organised for us by nutritional therapist and special diet chef Christine Bailey who many of you will know well. Apart from having three children of her own on restricted diets …





