The winners' tasting buffet is definitely the highlight of the FreeFrom Food Awards party these days – especially this year when Chef Dean and his very artistic minions had had a go at it! And whereas last year there was a mad scramble at the end of the presentations to get …
Ruth Holroyd
Celeriac…….
Is that not truly magnificent? I must admit that, when it arrived from Farm Direct, I was not even sure what it was, it was so enormous – and so muddy.... But a celeriac it surely was and, in due course, it got turned into a fine selection of celeriac-based dishes. I feel that …
Is scratching eczema a form of self harm?
Many of you will already know, or at least know of, Ruth Holroyd who runs the What allergy? blog. Ruth has more allergies and intolerances than all of our hot breakfasts put together and writes both movingly and amusingly about living with them. One of the symptoms of her many …
Living with eczema
Those of us lucky enough to have relatively normal skin all pay lip service to 'how awful it must be to have bad eczema' and 'those poor little children' with weeping, open sores. (Pictures courtesy of Dr Harry Morrow Brown.) And indeed we do feel genuinely sympathetic – but how …
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 …