I spent the weekend with my lovely friend, Italian cookery writer Anna del Conte and, just as happens every time I stay with her, I was left speechless by how wonderful the simplest of food can taste in the right hands. For lunch on Saturday, for which we had guests, we had …
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FreeFrom Food Awards shortlist is out!!
Hectic - but hey - that's what it's all about!! The 2012 FreeFrom FoodAwards shortlist was published this morning – and almost instantly our internet connection went down! So all those keen shortlisted manufacturers, dying to get their hands on their logo and a press release to …
Judging the 2012 FreeFrom Food Awards – fascinating and rewarding
Kate Hawkings (food writer) and Louise Marchionne (allergy therapist) 'working on' category 12 – scones, sweet tarts, sweet biscuits, cookies etc. Like last year’s, this year’s judging for the FreeFrom Food Awards was a thoroughly enjoyable, if somewhat exhausting, experience! …
Snow, light, SAD, impending ‘flu – and chicken soup….
Although the snow that is currently 'whiting out' a good deal of the country should, in theory, be bright and full of light, it only really works when the sky is clear and the sun reflecting back the whiteness. For most of this week there has, instead, been a dirty grey blanket …
Are Macdonalds french fries safe? Here we go with labeling again…
I am not sure who pointed me to this post but it illustrates, yet again, the terrible confusing tangle that is allergy labeling.... The question is, effectively, whether hydrolysing, or breaking down a protein into its amino acid components, destroys its allergenicity or reduces …