Very soon we will be announcing the 2015 Freefrom Food Awards (entry opens in mid September) and our new charity for 2014, FoodCycle. FoodCycle asked us to write a blog for their site about why we had chosen them as our charity for 2015 - and I have just realised that it should …
Gluten-free
Costa ‘freefrom’ a rave success
About a year ago I had lunch with one of our FreeFrom Food Awards judges who wanted me to meet Hannah MacKay, Costa Coffee's 'Savoury Development Manager'. Costa were seriously considering putting a gluten-free sandwich/wrap/panini into their shops and she felt that maybe I could …
Pomegranates, blueberries, Japanese wine berries and bees – in King’s Cross…
These days, King's Cross is awash in vertical flower walls, canal side walkways and gushing fountains but across the railway tracks in the industrial park, nature is in a better established, more productive mode. Way back in 1985, when King's Cross was seedy backwater inhabited …
Why are we all avoiding gluten?
Yesterday both the Daily Mail and Telegraph ran long articles on the stratospheric growth in the gluten free food market. Here are two suggestions for what is powering that growth: 1. Gluten intolerance is not just about coeliac disease Earlier this year gluten expert Dr …
The Allergy Show struts its stuff in the Grand Hall at Olympia
I do love Victorian ironwork. Whether it is the soaring arches of St Pancras Station, the Palm House at Kew or – the Grand Hall at Olympia. And, in terms of 'grand', you cannot get much grander than The Grand Hall at Olympia. The roof, 115 feet high and constructed from 85 …