Just off Streedagh beach looking onto Donegal Bay – the most amazing collection of edible seaweeds: sugar kelp, dulse, sea spaghetti, pepper dulse, carrageenan, sea lettuce, velvet horn, bladderwrack, alaria and a very pretty pink seaweed (erect coralline) which is also pure …
Nutrition
Paris – a feast for the eye but not for the freefrom stomach….
Paris was looking stunning this week. Sparkling blue skies reflected in the gentle flow of the Seine, warm April sun freshened by a gentle breeze, the pale early leaf of the willow trees, the pink candles on the chestnuts just breaking into flower... A veritable feast for the …
Prescription restriction – are the savings real?
Outrage has had a field day over the last ten days – whether it is coeliacs outraged that Simon Stevens wants to deprive them of their prescription foods or non-coeliacs who are outraged that coeliacs should get 'free' food – which of course is not free anyhow, unless you get …
Free Range Milk
Thanks to an article by the wonderful Joanna Blythman in a recent Guardian, I have just discovered about this brilliant initiative. Built up over the last five years by Somerset farmer, Neil Darwent, Free Range Dairy has created a set of standards and a logo, Pasture Promise, …
FreeFrom Food Awards pending…..
For the last two weeks we have had a new Kate (we now have a Katherine, a Catherine, a Kathy and a Kate working for us....) taking in and organising over 500 products for the judging of the FreeFrom Food Awards – yes, the 10th FreeFrom Food Awards – which start next week. I …