The advantage of being a 'small compact team' is that you can be ultra flexible and move forward quickly on an idea if it seems like a good one; the disadvantage is that you are all too likely to leap into something without really having looked as carefully as maybe you …
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‘FreeFrom’ moving forward
Cressida and I spent two very enjoyable days last week in Daventry at the Food and Drink Innovation Network's two-day 'freefrom summit' which I was chairing. FDIN freefrom seminars are a well established tradition by now – I think this was the fifth – but this was the first time …
FreeFrom in Europe – and Freiburg
There is no doubt that 2013 has been a year of 'firsts' – not only the first 'freefrom' trade exhibition in Europe but the first FreeFrom Restaurant awards (yet to happen), the first foray of 'freefrom' into vending, the first time that Foodsmatter Twitter followers have exceeded …
They have finally done it! Pizza Express goes gluten-free!
Pizza Express has always been my favourite pizza restaurant. Maybe it is because there has always been a lovely friendly branch literally four minutes walk from my front door. (My son's favourite take-away throughout his childhood was a 'margherita with extra tuna and …
The challenges of freefrom catering
All those restaurants who are already seriously nervous about the new 2014 allergy declarations will have been sent into a blue funk by the fate of Jamie's Italian in Portsmouth. They have just pleaded guilty to 'selling food not of the nature and quality demanded by the …