Nicola, who runs the Feeding My Intolerant Child blog was due to join our judging panel for Category 7 of the Freefrom Eating Out Awards last week but, at the last moment she had to pull out because her allergic little boy, Zac, was ill. I quote: It seems my Mum accidentally …
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Foodcycle and the FreeFrom Food Awards
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 …
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 …
The battle of the supermarkets – again…
This morning Derby City Council was reported as calling for a tax of up to £400 million to be imposed on the larger supermarkets, the money to be spent on regenerating the town centres which have suffered so badly as a result of supermarket expansion. Such a scheme, known as the …
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 …