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Caught on the web
l The sadly departed author JG Ballard was assistant editor on The Baker in 1956, then the official publication of the Institute of British Bakers and of the Institute of Irish Bakers... tinyurl.com/dgbtpv l Deep Fried Coke is taking off in the States with a calorie count equivalent to 10 ...
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Spice rack: Cinnamon
Cinnamon is the dried bark of an evergreen tree that is grown in Sri Lanka, Southern India and the West Indies. It is available in small sticks or ground into a powder. The sticks are usually used to make an infusion, for example warmed in milk for custard tarts.Generally, when ...
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Reporting in Is ’clean label’ clean?
As the Soil Association prepares for its processing standards review, two aspects of the relationship between food producers and consumers seem paramount: trust and transparency. The former requires the latter. Food scares in the past 20 years damaged trust in conventional producers and encouraged people to seek organic alternatives, based ...
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Coffee outlets miss a trick on food-to-go sales
Coffee shops are missing out on sales because they are failing to emphasise the freshness and quality of their sandwiches, accor-ding to a new IGD report on consu- mer attitudes on food-to-go.While coffee shops generally have a good reputation for their hot drinks, many people prefer to buy their ...
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Colour concern
James Gibson of cake decorations company Sweet Sensations knows he is swimming against the tide as he speaks up in defence of synthetic food colours in icing sugar and marzipan.The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has imposed a voluntary ban on six synthetic E-number food colours from the end of 2009, ...
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McCambridge saves costs in management shake-up
A shake-up in personnel at McCambridge, the Irish bread company that acquired Inter Link Foods in 2007, has seen CEO Gavin Cox leave the company with Andrew Coppel combining the role with his position as executive chairman.
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Meaty creations
Barely a week goes by without some tale of cupcake ’envelope pushing’, and this week is no different, with US cupcake stories dominating our humble corner of BB.And what better way to rewrite the cupcake recipe book than by introducing the not-so-dainty ingredient of dead animals?"Meatloaf is a wonderful ...
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Red Sky is a natural delight for Walkers
Walkers’ new premium crisp brand Red Sky has launched a new advertising campaign for Spring. Featuring the strapline ’From Nature’s Kitchen’, the TV advert consists of various creatures - for example squirrels and bees - working together to harness the ingredients in Red Sky, with the voiceover: "nature ...
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A taste of doughnut luxury
Krispy Kreme UK has launched a new patisserie doughnut range, featuring three "luxurious" additions.The new Coffee Swirl doughnut is filled with a smooth coffee crème and iced and decorated with a chocolate spiral and mocha bean. The Belgian Chocolate variety is filled with Belgian chocolate, hand-dipped in chocolate ...
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Edible nut pricing
Almonds: The Californian almond bloom was good, but there were widespread reports of a late frost that affected a number of countries to differing degrees. This will have impacted on the final crop figure come the harvest in August/September.Walnuts: To date, the volumes of new season walnuts imported from both ...
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Sugar - EU reform thoughts from Renshawnapier
The second phase of the main EU sugar reform finishes in October. As an independent, non-refining distributor of sugar in the UK, we welcome the reform. It will improve access to new African sugars, which could bring some new types of raw cane sugar to the UK from ...
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Fat under fire
It wasn’t long ago that the baking industry was at war with trans fats, spending vast amounts of time and money on new ingredients, reformulating recipes and changing production processes. The campaign was successful, with the so-called ’killer fat’ more or less vanquished from bakery products. But just when ...
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Rowe’s finds reggae rhythm
Cornish bakery Rowe’s has revealed that its new Reggae Reggae Chicken Pasty is now outselling its Traditional Steak variety - a first in its history.The Reggae Reggae Chicken Pasty was launched at the start of the year in over 300 Sainsbury’s stores nationwide. It has been developed using Reggae Reggae ...
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Which? finds ’shocking’ results for sandwiches
Consumer lobby group Which? has slammed sandwiches from Asda, Marks & Spencer and Subway as containing "shocking" amounts of salt, sugar or saturated fat and is calling for nutritional information to be available at point of sale for all sandwiches.Research published in Which? magazine found that Subway’s six-inch Meatball ...
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Wholesale success for fine food firm
Fine food retailer Lewis & Cooper’s move into wholesale looks to be paying off after its fruit cakes and biscuits were listed at 11 National Trust shops and retailer Lakeland ordered 11,000 of its plum puddings.The Northallerton-based shop, famous for its plum puddings and fruit cakes, launched its wholesale business ...
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Parkam snaps up Freshway Foods
Meat product manufacturer Parkam Food Group has acquired sandwich and chilled filling manufacturer Freshway Foods after the West Midlands-based company went into administration.Parkam has announced that Freshway Foods will now trade as Freshway Chilled Foods and combined group turnover will stand at around £140m.Family business Freshway, run by Alan and ...
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ISA gets on the Metro
ISA (UK) has launched a new display cabinet range, Metro, with chilled, ambient and heated modules.The different modules have been designed to combine with other products in ISA’s portfolio, including the Millennium range, which features pastry display units. ISA is aiming the new units at bakeries, sandwich shops and patisseries.The ...
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Goliath vs Goliath
There’s nothing quite like a good, juicy dust-up between industry giants to shake things up, is there? Especially when it’s between two heavyweights who are about to knock ten shades of - shall we say chocolate brownies - out of each other.In a "let’s get ready to rumble" moment, wholesale ...
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Organic growth
Located in the heart of the Cotswold hills in the picturesque village of Shipton-under-Wychwood, specialist independent flour miller FWP Matthews has been putting its money where its mouth is.The company is owned and run by Paul and Graham Matthews, great great grandsons of the founder Frederick William Powell Matthews, ...
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Marketing insight: trade show tips
As food-to-go consultants, we often get asked about where you should turn to as a business for new insights or strategies on how to sell more products - from bakers and café owners to independent retailers. Never has this been more important than in these harsh economic times.Exhibitions can be ...