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NewsTop toasters: Sick of burning your bread?
This futuristic wonder lets you see the bread as it toasts. Still at blueprint stage, the idea was developed by Inventables Concept Studio based on a transparent heating glass technology. One small failing: the glass doesn’t yet get hot enough to toast bread!
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Briefs
n Fosters Bakery in Mapplewell, Barnsley, has reduced the food miles and carbon footprint of sandwiches sold in Boots by using wheat grown and then milled locally in its new range of bread. Owner John Foster made a long-term commitment last year to local farmers to use their wheat and ...
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Growth for chocolate supplier
Barry Callebaut, a major supplier of chocolate to the baking and confectionery industry, announced last week that sales volumes rose 10.6% for the three months ending November 30, 2007.Patrick De Maeseneire, CEO of Barry Callebaut, said the company had passed on the costs of higher raw materials to ...
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On crash dieting
Nineteenth-century physician and godfather of Allinson’s bread had a hotline to the truth. A century on, his wisdom could help solve the problems of our own troubled times. If only the youth of today would listen... On crash dieting: “My young lady readers cannot do better than join a ...
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FSA targets definitive food labelling scheme
The government’s hopes of creating a single food labelling system have been dented after Tesco said it would not agree to the Foods Standards Agency’s (FSA) "unproven" traffic light system.The FSA has commissioned a £500,000 independent evaluation of consumer opinion about the three main types of front-of-pack labelling: the traffic ...
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Export demand for UK wheat
The quality of UK wheat has been praised by millers from Spain, Portugal, Morocco and Tunisia at a recent Home-Grown Cereals Authority (HGCA) bread baking workshop but there are concerns over levels of supply.Emma Finn, HGCA arable business supply chain manager, said there were specific worries over the ...
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Sour dough
A restaurant heist turned sour, when bungling robbers mistook a $5 bag of bread rolls for a $30,000 swag bag. Donna Hayes and Benjamin Jorgensen were sent down after the failed robbery at the Cuckoo Restaurant in Melbourne, Australia, last year. The raid, which fittingly took place on April Fool’s ...
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Are you eligible?
It is no secret that, similar to other areas within the food industry, the bakery sector is fuelled by consumers looking for new product and packaging choices.In addition to consumer pressure, manufacturers must comply with regulatory bodies, such as the UK Food Standards Agency and the Food and Drug Administration.As ...
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LASER event
The London and South East Region (LASER) of the National Association of Master Bakers is hosting an Edwardian Breakfast to honour John Renshaw, this year’s Master of the Worshipful Company of Bakers.Renshaw and his wife Jill will be guests of honour at the breakfast on 20 April. Proceeds from the ...
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Franglais speaking
Late last year we featured an article from retail expert MPC, saying that the UK must learn lessons from France if it wants to revive bakery retailing on the high street (BB, Nov 30, pg 14). So what do we find on the streets of Lille? The Covent Garden Expresso ...
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Warburtons worker gets life
A bakery worker at the Warburtons bakery in Bellshill, who stabbed a colleague through the heart in a row over tea breaks, was jailed for life on Monday.Paul Steadward must serve a minimum of 16 years in prison before being considered for parole, said the judge.He had denied murdering ...
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Terry Tang at a glance
Established: The business was formed in 2000 and, after moving from a smaller location, Terry Tang’s is now on Picton Road in WavertreeKey personnel: The family business comprises four people including Terry, his wife Carol and their daughterOutput: The bakery can make up to 15 novelty cakes a day and ...
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What the judges said
Nicola Hemming, applications technologist at Renshaw:"Terry’s design immediately caught our eye and his broad use of sugarpaste techniques clearly showed both his versatility as a sugarcrafter and imagination as a designer. The finish of the cake was faultless and Terry’s attention to detail was outstanding. He made great use of ...
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McDonald’s leads way
Skills council Improve hopes the wave of publicity surrounding the new McDonald’s qualification, which is equivalent to an A-level, will encourage more bakery employers to introduce nationally recognised in-house training.Jack Matthews, chief executive of Improve, told British Baker that it was already working with Ginsters and confectionery company Swizzles Matlow ...
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Terry tops the lot
The Celebration Cake Maker of the Year certificate and picture of Terry Tang with Joanna Lumley, which was taken on the night of the Baking Industry Awards 2007, proudly hangs on the wall of the bakery shop. It is placed on the right-hand side of a nine-foot wedding cake, decorated ...
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Packaging watch
The global packaging industry will display the latest processing and packaging trends for a range of sectors including confectionery and baked goods when trade fair Interpack runs in Dusseldorf, Germany, from 24 to 30 April.Interpack 2008 is expected to be the largest ever with exhibitors and visitors spread across 19 ...
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A passport to the world
Sam’s Cookies, a well-respected bakery firm in Bray, Co Wicklow, just south of Dublin, which has been trading since 1992, is about to face the challenges of exporting for the first time.The firm was founded and is still run by husband and wife team Keith and Sam Johnson. Keith, the ...
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NewsTalking rot(i)
Naan bread, it’s the future! As part of the government’s recently announced obesity drive (presumably to reduce it, not promote it), it will be reintroducing cookery in schools, including teaching kids how to make a “simple curry”. Bad timing, then, that curry is now being blamed for a rise in ...
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United we stand
In the news last week came reports that the government will be reintroducing home economics. Fifteen years ago they didn’t want to know and now all the teachers have dropped out. It’s like shooting an athlete in the foot before they begin a race.In our own industry the Doomsday clock ...
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Where we are today
The UK food and drink manufacturing sector is the largest and only growing manufacturing sector, with:l £73 billion annual turnoverl 500,000 employees, over 80% of the which are in Englandl 118,000 new people needed by 2014 - 40,000 of whom will be machine operators, 38,000 will be supervisors/managers, 16,000 ...