In a positive hurricane of last minute entry forms, the 2014 closed at midnight last Sunday, logging up a satisfactory 19% increase in companies entering the awards. Very encouragingly for the freefrom sector these included 69 'new' companies some of whom are established freefrom …
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Campus Feast 2013 – a feast of food start-ups
A couple of days ago I found myself heading for Silicon Roundabout, London's answer to Silicon Valley, at the invitation of no less a person than Google!! The invitation was to visit Campus Feast but I must admit that I went because I thought I was going to get to see the famed …
Alpro causes storm over proposed nut warnings
Alpro's plans to combine their soya and nut milk-making facilities on one site thereby, as they see it, necessitating nut warnings on their soya milk, have caused understandable uproar within the nut-allergic community. All too of many of the rapidly growing number of …
Allergen legislation in pubs will not have an easy ride
A short piece in the Publican's Morning Advertiser headlined 'Allergen law 'fatal for pub specials board' has put its finger on one of the trickiest challenges faced by the new allergen regulations for 'food sold loose and in food service'. Waitrose Good Food Guide editor, …
‘FreeFrom’ in the Himalayas wins ‘Best for the local award economies’
Way back in 2007 I spent a wonderful two weeks walking in the foothills of the Himalayas courtesy of the then quite new Village Ways eco-holiday group - an initiative which enables remote villages to become self-sustaining by entertaining visitors who want to walk in their hills. …