Moving on from 7–9 year olds' bizarre ideas about water consumption, John Scott alerted me last month to a new book investigating why it is that teenage boys so often appear to take the craziest of risks. This is especially concerning if you are the parent of an allergic teenage …
Peanut allergy
FreeFrom holds the floor
I realise, with horror, that it is well over a week since I even looked at this blog – but I blame it all on 'freefrom'..... It has, indeed, been a heavy couple of freefrom weeks: the closure of the entry for the FreeFrom Eating Out Awards on August 31st, an exciting webinar …
What Allergy? Essential reading for all food allergics
This is just a mini rave about our friend and colleague, Ruth Holroyd's, excellent allergy blog, What Allergy? I am sure that many of you will already know or follow Ruth – but if you don't, you should! Around 80,000 people do read her blog every month, so if you don't, you are …
The Allergy Show struts its stuff in the Grand Hall at Olympia
I do love Victorian ironwork. Whether it is the soaring arches of St Pancras Station, the Palm House at Kew or – the Grand Hall at Olympia. And, in terms of 'grand', you cannot get much grander than The Grand Hall at Olympia. The roof, 115 feet high and constructed from 85 …
‘Now EU wants allergy alerts on all menus’ – well, no…
Prue Leith hit the headlines in the Daily Mail this week when she condemned the new allergen regulations for food service coming into force in December as a 'bureaucratic nightmare' that will 'kill innovation and experimentation in the kitchen and cooking what is available daily …