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Author, Joanna Blythman photographed in her Edinburgh home.


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Joanna Blythman’s Blog – Morrisons’ GM Muck Up

Morrisons’ rearguard decision to allow its farmers to use GM feed looks spectacularly ill-informed and dumb, when Carrefour labels own-label meat and dairy products as GM animal feed-free, or ‘Nourri sans OGM’. If the world’s second largest retailer can guarantee … Continue reading

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Dan Lepard’s Short and Sweet shortlisted for Cookery Book of the Year Award

Yet more good news on the awards front!  Short and Sweet by Dan Lepard has been shortlisted for the Guild of Food Writers Cookery Book of the Year Award. The shortlist for this category is as follows: SHORT AND SWEET by … Continue reading

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Early reviews for ‘What to Eat’ by Joanna Blythman

Publishing next month, we have already received some wonderful praise for Joanna Blythman’s new book, ‘What to Eat: Food that’s good for your health, pocket and plate‘. ‘Joanna Blythman has one of the sanest food heads in the Western World – … Continue reading

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Joanna Blythman’s Blog – Bring Back Butchers

I’m right behind the Meat Crusade, the new campaign to save our high street butchers. They have been haemorrhaging of late, and not because someone’s hand slipped with the cleaver. There were some 22,000 traditional butchers shops in Britain in … Continue reading

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Dan Lepard’s Short and Sweet shortlisted for the Andre Simon Food and Drink Book awards 2011

Exciting news!  Dan Lepard’s Short And Sweet has been shortlisted in the Food category of the 2011 Andre Simon Food & Drink Book Awards. The shortlisted books for the 2011 prize in the food category are: Bocca – Jacob Kenedy … Continue reading

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Made in Sicily Launch Party

Giorgio Locatelli’s ‘Made in Sicily’ was launched in spectacular style last night at Giorgio’s restaurant Locanda Locatelli with Kate Winslet, Gwen Stefani, Nigella Lawson and Antonio Carluccio all out to celebrate with us. As you’d expect at the launch of Sicilian … Continue reading

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Dan Lepard talks about Short and Sweet [video]

Click below to watch a video of Dan Lepard introducing us to his new book, the gorgeous ‘Short and Sweet‘. Be warned, this video contains explicit images of tasty baked goods and is likely to cause acute salivation. You can … Continue reading

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Nigel Slater’s Simple Suppers and books

Nigel Slater’s Simple Suppers on the BBC has introduced many new people to Nigel’s style of simple, flavoursome recipes and books that are about good food rather than pretentious eating. This style of recipe and cooking has been something we … Continue reading

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Fruit Mess dessert by innocent

A great dessert to get the kids making and involved with cooking. This fruit mes is fun, tasty and easy to make. Why not have it for dessert after your veggie burgers and chop-chop salad. Watch the video below and … Continue reading

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Innocent – a note on nutrition

The new cookbook from the guys over at innocent drinks is packed full of healthy recipes for kids. Here is a note from the book on nutrition. We hope you find it useful! Open publication – Free publishing – More … Continue reading