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Guild of Food Writers

70s cooking greats!

01/09/2015 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

Radio 4's The Reunion addicts will no doubt have logged in last week and heard the pre-telly chef greats talking about food back in the dark days of the 1960s and 70s.  But if you missed it and have even a passing interest in food, it is worth a listen. Claudia Roden's …

Category: Cooking/kitchen equipment, Food, RecipesTag: Anna del Conte, Anna del conte on Pasta, Bob Holness, Claudia Roden, Claudia roden on Jewish food, Cooking in a bedsitter, Cranks vegetarian restaurant, Guild of Food Writers, Jane Grigson and Baked beans, Katherine Whitehorn, LBC Radio, LBC Radio's AM programme, Mary Berry the Aga lady, Prue Leith, Prue Leith 's cooking spot on the Today programme, Radio 4's the Reunion, Rose Elliott

EATING IN KWAMAHSU – Winner of the Guild of Food Writers’ Young Writer of the Year award

04/07/2015 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

Although in years gone by I was an active member of the Guild of Food Writers I am afraid that these days 'freefrom' food has rather taken over from all those other kinds of food and I rarely do more than skim the monthly newsletter. But, meanwhile, the Guild has gone from …

Category: FoodTag: Chakalaka, Guild of Food Writers, race relations in south africa, shishinyama, south african street children, Thomas moore winner to Write It, Write it Young food writer of the year

Farewell to the lovely Marguerite Patten

11/06/2015 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  2 Comments

Very few people are still around who would remember Marguerite's wartime Kitchen Front recipes programme's but that was only the start of an extremely long career in cookery which really only ended four years ago when, at the ripe old age of 95 she had a serious stroke. I got …

Category: Food, RecipesTag: Guild of Food Writers, Marguerite Patten

Cookery curiosities at the Guildhall

26/10/2012 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

Courtesy of the Guild of Food Writers, I took a lovely trip down Memory Lane last night.  Actually, both down my own personal lane and down through the history of English cookbooks. The occasion was a talk by Peter Ross, Principal Librarian at the Guildhall Library in charge of …

Category: Food, FreeFrom Food, RecipesTag: Andre Simon, British Museum Cookbook, Christopher Driver, Dick Whittington, Elizabeth David, Food Fit for Pharoahs, Freefrom food, FreeFrom Recipes, Guild of Food Writers, Guildhall Library, historical English cookery books, history of the Guildhall library, Isokon Building, Lord Protector somerset, Raymond Postgate, Sir Giles Scott, Sir Hugh Plat, The Curious Cookbook, The Good Food Guide, The Lawn Road Flats

Coeliac/gluten-free tweetup…. 2nd June 8–9pm

27/05/2011 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  3 Comments

Those readers who 'tweet' will know exactly what I mean – to those who don't, apologies!  A 'tweetup' is a get-together on Twitter – you all sit round your computers or your mobiles for an hour and 'chat'  on Twitter – a formula that is now common in many online guises. You …

Category: Blogging/social media, Dairy-free, FreeFrom Food, Gluten-free, UncategorizedTag: #gftweetup, Coeliac twitter talk, Fishmongers' Hall, Gluten free, Gluten-free/coeliac, Guild of Food Writers, hashtag, Tweetdeck, twitter chat

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