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lentils

Happy lentilly New Year

31/12/2012 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

Alex has just alerted me to the fact that, because they look like little gold coins, lentils are a traditional dish on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day in Italy as they are thought to bring wealth in the year to come!  I know it is a little late, but I thought maybe we could …

Category: Dairy-free, Food, FreeFrom Food, Gluten-free, RecipesTag: Anna del Conte, Eating lentils on New Year's Eve for luck, green lentils, lenticchie, lenticchie in umido, lentils, lentils for wealth, lentils from Castelluccio, New Year's Eve, Puy lentils, red lentils, Zampone

New codex standard for gluten-free food – and the dreaded ‘may contain’…

13/01/2012 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  5 Comments

On January 1st the new regulations governing the use of the term 'gluten-free' came into force. As of Jan.1, to be able to call itself 'gluten-free' a food must contain less than 20 parts per million (ppm) of gluten, to call itself  'very low gluten'  it must contain less than …

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