For the last 20 years or more I have been dutifully trecking off to Royal Hospital Road for Chelsea Flower Show's press day in the vain hope of finding a low allergen show garden. So I was more than frustrated (I was unable to go this year) when I heard an item on the Today …
Ruth Holroyd
Allergy Awareness Week
I am afraid that we were so caught up with the FreeFrom Food Awards last week that we had not really logged Allergy Awareness Week this week... So, better late than never - a brief alert: Allergy UK are running an awareness campaign called Living in Fear to highlight the fact …
Unacceptable attitudes to allergies
Not surprisingly the press has been awash this week in articles and programmes about the new allergen regulations. Good! Great that they are paying attention and covering the subject. However, inevitably, the coverage has also brought the worst along with the best – such as some …
Presenting the FreeFrom Eating Out Awards!
Antony Worrall Thompson throws off the scarf concealing the name of the winners of the first ever FreeFrom Eating Out Awards last Tuesday at the awards presentation. And who might those winners have been? Well, they were the delightful team from the Alford Arms in Frithsden …
What Allergy? Essential reading for all food allergics
This is just a mini rave about our friend and colleague, Ruth Holroyd's, excellent allergy blog, What Allergy? I am sure that many of you will already know or follow Ruth – but if you don't, you should! Around 80,000 people do read her blog every month, so if you don't, you are …