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Has Brussels destroyed the creativity of our chefs?

14/12/2015 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  2 Comments

Well, here we are – a year on from the imposition of Brussel's draconian allergen regulations on the catering industry.... Yet, have we seen mass closures of restaurants – or lemming-like swarms of suicidal chefs, their ‘spontaneity, creativity and innovation’ destroyed, racing …

Category: Allergies, Coeliac/celiac disease, Cooking/kitchen equipment, Dairy-free, FreeFrom Awards, FreeFrom Food, Gluten-free, Peanut allergyTag: 14 major allergens, allergen free dining, allergen-free catering exciting, allergy awareness in food service, Chef dominic teague, FDIN, Food Information Regulations 2015, FreeFrom Eating Out Awards, gluten free dining, Horizons - food service, hospitality & Catering News, Indigo at One Aldwych, Mark Kennett at oscar & Bentleys, opportunities in food service opening up, Oscar and Bentleys, Sue's coeliac diary

Food Matters Live – an exciting week!

27/11/2015 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  2 Comments

    As you may be aware we spent most of last week down in Docklands at the Food Matters Live event – and quite an event it was!  Well, I say that but in fact, that is just hearsay as we were so busy that, for the second year running, I did not manage to get to …

Category: Allergies, Big Business, Coeliac/celiac disease, Dairy-free, Food, FreeFrom Awards, FreeFrom Food, Gluten-free, Peanut allergy, RecipesTag: Alternative Edibles theatre, catering director at Leiths, Catering for Health theatre, Catherine Rose of Sweetcheeks, Chef Jonathan and his liquid nitrogen frozen ice cream!, Chef Mark Kennett at Oscar & Bentleys, Evidence Base and Drink Well theatre, Excel, Food Matters Live, Food Matters Live conference pod, Food Matters Live seminars, FreeFrom Eating Out Awards, FreeFrom Eating Out Awards presentation, Ghurka curry with lemon rice, Kevin Watson, Leith's at Excel, Magdalena of El Piano, Oscar & Bentley's, polenta pizza, spiralised vegetable pasta

FreeFrom Eating Out Awards – the winners 2015!

20/11/2015 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  1 Comment

Yes, here they all are – the 2015 winners – and very happy they look too, don't they? As indeed they were. It is one of the best things about running free awards – how genuinely excited the winners are – because they all have so much invested in what they are doing. So, who did …

Category: Coeliac/celiac disease, Dairy-free, Eczema, Food, FreeFrom Food, Gluten-free, Nutrition, Peanut allergyTag: 2 Oxford Place, Antony Worrall Thompson, Can I eat there?, Canterbury, Caterlyst, Daura Damm lager, Debs Bailey Knibbs, Eden Food Service wins Freefrom Eating Out Awards, Fitzwilliam college Cambridge, FreeFrom Eating Out Awards, FreeFrom Eating Out Awards winners, Hove, International Centre Telford, Labyrinth Holistic Café, Leeds, Mark Kennett of Oscar & Bentleys, Media Wisdom, Nairn's chocolate biscuit breaks, Oscar and Bentleys, Oscar and Bentleys for allergen free food, royal Oak in Marlow, Rule of Crumb chicken goujons, Stonecroft in Edale, Wolfies

Lovely Liverpool – November 2015

13/11/2015 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  3 Comments

So , another long trip up the M1/M6 - but lovely Liverpool at the of it, so we do not mind! Why lovely Liverpool? Well, because we were off to the Allergy & FreeFrom Show North of course, although this time we stopped off on the way to visit Udi's at their bakery in Hawarden, …

Category: Allergies, Coeliac/celiac disease, Dairy-free, Food, FreeFrom Awards, FreeFrom Food, Nutrition, Peanut allergyTag: Allergy & Free From Show Scotland, Allergy & FreeFrom Show Berlin, Allergy & FreeFrom Show North, artisan freeform sourdough bread, Boulder Brands, cloudscapes over the Mersey, Davies Bakery, FEELFREE for Freefrom, Liverpool, Liverpool Exhibition Centre, master bakers, Miss Nella nailvarnish, Perkier, Simon Hazlett, Tate Liverpool, Tesco gluten free profiteroles, Udi's

The mess that is ‘may contain’

24/10/2015 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  2 Comments

Many of you will have filled in our 'may contain' survey a few weeks ago and I promised both to let you know the results – and to explain why it was that we were doing the survey. So a few results first: When you were asked what you thought when faced with a ‘may contain …

Category: Allergies, Big Business, Conventional Medicine, Dairy-free, Food, Food/Health Policy, FreeFrom Food, Gluten-free, Peanut allergy, PoliticsTag: 'may contain' warnings, allergy action levels, consumer confusion over main contain labelling, Eu commission and FIR, Eu commission and PAL, FDIN - FreeFrom - Tapping into a new healthier Lifestyle, FIR 2014, FIR for intentionally included allergens, Food Information Regulations, industry confusion over PAL, PAL, Precautionary allergen labelling – have we got the balance wrong?, risk to consumer of many contain confusion, You Gov survey for FDIN

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