I have just spent a fascinating two days working my way through the judges' comments on our entrants for the FreeFrom Eating Out Awards. And let me say right now that our judges did a sterling job! The forms were extremely long and complicated (much too long and complicated in …
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Foodcycle and the FreeFrom Food Awards
Very soon we will be announcing the 2015 Freefrom Food Awards (entry opens in mid September) and our new charity for 2014, FoodCycle. FoodCycle asked us to write a blog for their site about why we had chosen them as our charity for 2015 - and I have just realised that it should …
The battle of the supermarkets – again…
This morning Derby City Council was reported as calling for a tax of up to £400 million to be imposed on the larger supermarkets, the money to be spent on regenerating the town centres which have suffered so badly as a result of supermarket expansion. Such a scheme, known as the …
Alpro causes storm over proposed nut warnings
Alpro's plans to combine their soya and nut milk-making facilities on one site thereby, as they see it, necessitating nut warnings on their soya milk, have caused understandable uproar within the nut-allergic community. All too of many of the rapidly growing number of …
Allergen legislation in pubs will not have an easy ride
A short piece in the Publican's Morning Advertiser headlined 'Allergen law 'fatal for pub specials board' has put its finger on one of the trickiest challenges faced by the new allergen regulations for 'food sold loose and in food service'. Waitrose Good Food Guide editor, …