Just checking in to apologise that February, so far, has been a blog-free zone – entirely due to Week One of the judging for the 2011 FreeFrom Food Awards which, thanks to the sterling efforts of our backroom staff, Cressida and Katherine, has gone extremely smoothly.
Week Two starts on Tuesday – after which comes the mind-boggling task of first reading, and then categorising, the scribbled comments of our really excellent panel of judges – a combination of 31 food professionals and allergy sufferers/coeliacs, some of whom have just judged one category, some of whom have made it through two or three days’ worth of judging!
A selection of their comments will be available in due course on the awards website – as will the shortlist for the 2011 awards. ETA? Late February/early March, to give plenty of time for suspense to build ahead of the presentations by Antony Worrall Thompson on April 6th at the Kew Bridge Steam Museum – attendance by invitation only…