Our websmaster, who spends a good deal of time in Russia, is a great kefir enthusiast so when Sue Cane (our gluten-free beer expert) offered us some kefir grains to 'grow our own' I thought he would be very excited. For those of you who have never heard of it, kefir is the …
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Camel Milk
I was delighted to be alerted to the fact that camel milk now has its own entry in Wikipedia. It is quite a comprehensive entry and does add to my knowledge – which had been pretty limited – see Camel cheese and the Latest cure for allergies . However, if any of you out there …
Food Intolerance – or ‘Just’ Anxiety?…
Predictably, Dr Guido Basilisco's assertion that the majority of those who think they are suffering from lactose intolerance are actually suffering 'altered somatization' (they do have the symptoms but they are not caused by the disease) has spawned the usual rash of the 'we keep …
Allergic to milk vapour?
I have just been reading a post on Ruth Holroyd's excellent What Allergy blog in which she asks whether she could be reacting to milk vapour in coffee shops? Ruth is extremely sensitive to a number of foods, including milk (anaphylactic to any ingested milk) but whereas she had …
Excellence versus Innovation – judging the FFFood Awards… part 1!
Judging food awards is, you would think, a fairly simple business – as long as you have some understanding of food and relatively well trained taste buds, you are away. But this is not really so for our awards because, as in all things to do with allergy, it is just not that …