Courtesy of the Guild of Food Writers, I took a lovely trip down Memory Lane last night. Actually, both down my own personal lane and down through the history of English cookbooks. The occasion was a talk by Peter Ross, Principal Librarian at the Guildhall Library in charge of …
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Total food intolerance – a lethal condition
'Less than a year ago I was a bright, happy, energetic, slightly overweight 45 year old. Now I am a shadow of my former self. My husband and children are worried sick about me, I am having to re-home my beloved dog as I can no longer walk him and and I so fear that my days are …
You got eczema – and love rhubarb?….
If so, you are on a winner! According to this bit of research from the College of Pharmacy in Chunchon, Korea, rhubarb can ease eczema – or to quote them in full, Inhibition of experimental atopic dermatitis by rhubarb (rhizomes of Rheum tanguticum) and 5-lipocygenase inhibition …
Dairy disappointment
From all the headlines over the last few weeks, dairy allergics could not be blamed for thinking that all their problems had been solved – if Australian A2 milk did not do it for them, then Daisy, the hypo-allergenic New Zealand cow certainly would... But, alas, beyond the hype, …
FreeFrom pizza feeding frenzy!!
It's like Number 9 buses, really. For years you wait (well, hours in the case of the Number 9 bus) – frustrated, annoyed, disillusioned, hopeless, near despair.... and then three of them appear, one after the other! And so it is with freefrom pizzas! I could fill a …




