This post was actually intended for the garden pages but it seemed a shame not share Kew's splendid tree-top walk with a few more people, so here we go... I had rather hoped that we would be greeted by a sea of scarlet and gold from the sky walk. But whether Kew's trees are …
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Brexit and the food industry
The Food and Drink Innovation Network are usually pretty topical with their seminars but they excelled themselves this week. On Tuesday, not only did they have a regulatory lawyer explaining exactly what the High Court action which launched this morning could mean, but we had the …
Age-ism? Rubbish…..
Catching up, as I always seem to be, on last week's copy of The Week as this weeks' copy plops through letterbox, I noted a piece on 'Patient C' - the 50-year old who was supported by the Court of Protection' in her decision not to have life-saving dialysis as she was not …
‘Top chefs attack EU regulations’….again!
More than 100 top chefs have, apparently, written to the Daily Telegraph warning that the new EU allergen regulations are going to destroy 'spontaneity, creativity and innovation' in the restaurant trade because, according to the Telegraph: The EU allergens …
Why are we all avoiding gluten?
Yesterday both the Daily Mail and Telegraph ran long articles on the stratospheric growth in the gluten free food market. Here are two suggestions for what is powering that growth: 1. Gluten intolerance is not just about coeliac disease Earlier this year gluten expert Dr …