2013: a good or bad ‘free from’ year?
Was it the year of the villain? The one who first springs to my mind is cook Stacie Stewart, appearing on Food Glorious Food, who took a fair bit of flak (largely unfairly, in my view) following some...
View ArticleFree From Finds from NOPE
One of the best things I get to do in the course of my work is go to food and health trade shows, which are normally reserved for industry professionals, but for which press passes are generally...
View Article2014: a year in coeliac, intolerance and allergy
We’ll gloss over my failed prediction from last year’s round-up that low-FODMAP ready meals would be in our supermarkets by the end of 2014 (by end of 2015, definitely … ) and instead kick-off where I...
View ArticleGluten free and Free From at IFE
The International Food Exhibition (IFE) is a two-yearly trade show held at Excel in March of every odd year, and is usually a good showcase for both free from food, and vegan and vegetarian food, in...
View ArticleNew FreeFrom Foods at Natural and Organic Products Europe
A belated round-up of a selection of new free-from food finds from the NOPE Show 2016 held at Excel, East London, earlier this month. I’ll be blogging (or posting on Facebook) about other products of...
View ArticleFreeFrom finds at Speciality & Fine Food Fair 2016
It had been some years since I attended this annual foodie extravaganza, not having found much in the way of free from back in 2013 – but times change, the show has expanded, and both vegan and gluten...
View ArticleGluten Attack by David Sanders
I was excited when Dr Alessio Fasano released the excellent Gluten Freedom in 2014 and I was similarly excited when another top international gluten expert – Professor David Sanders – released his...
View ArticleHistamine intolerance
Histamine sensitivity is a little known and under-diagnosed problem. Histamine is present in the body, as it’s essential to some of its many processes. It is released by immune system cells in response...
View ArticleLow histamine recipes … galore!
Recipes low in histamine don’t draw anywhere near the attention that those for other restricted diets attract — ie gluten free or vegan — but are arguably much more needed, given that low-histamine...
View ArticleTwo new allergy reads
When you don’t have any personal experience of hypersensitivities but persist in writing books about them, some people ask you why you do what you do. Others go further and wonder what gives you the...
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