I am not very good on statistics (something to do with me not being very good at maths?....) and spend far less time than I should on checking which of you read what on our sites. But yesterday Cressida emailed me some 'comparative data' for entries into last year's and this …
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Tweeters, bloggers – and the FreeFrom Food Awards
Twitter, it seems, has made it through the gates of the Old Bailey. According to a report on Today this morning, the live reports of the Stephen Lawrence murder trial that you were watching on your TV screens were delivered to the reporter via tweets from journalists inside the …
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 …
Chicken texture… Roasting v. poaching v. boiling…
A few weeks ago we were, as you do, discussing chicken flesh... My son made the point that if you poach the whole chicken, covered in liquid, as you would to make Avgolemono soup for example, or a classic Jewish chicken soup, the flesh of the chicken is very soft and …