All Opinion articles – Page 3
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VE Day: The role of bakery in Britain during wartime
Food historian Seren Charrington-Hollins, who is working with Dawn Foods in its 100th birthday year, looks at the important role of the baker and baked goods in the 1940s.
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’We created a mash-up of a ciabatta and a sour process’
Jason Geary, managing director of Geary’s Bakery, on how he blended tradition and modernity to develop the bakery’s new bread
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’It was in our DNA to look at how we could help’
Peter Turner, a director at Turner’s Pies, on how the business has further engaged with its local community in the face of the coronavirus crisis.
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SU2C Bake Off 2020: buns, bakes and boozy baths
Ooh matron! Things are getting saucy in Carry On Baking this week, with more buns than you can shake a stick at, a collection of Jackie Collins novels and, err, dirty knees.
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SU2C Bake Off: YouTube star faints in the tent
Even if we could roam freely right now, Bake Off was worth staying in for last night.
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SU2C Bake Off 2020: the tent gets a bakeover
Yass queen! Finally, two of my favourite TV shows have collided and it is beautiful. For the record they are Bake Off and Queer Eye.
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Covid-19: How are bakers meeting soaring demand?
Gordon Polson, chief executive of the Federation of Bakers, on the ways bakers are changing their systems to maximise capacity
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Real Bread Week 2020: The Benefits of bread-making
Chris Young, coordinator of the Real Bread Campaign, on the success of last month’s 11th annual Real Bread Week
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SU2C Bake Off 2020: close encounters in the tent
The Bake Off tent has never shied away from a double entendre or innuendo, but this week things got downright dirty. Never in my life have I heard the word ‘poo’ uttered so much in a baking show.
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Why businesses should be ready for labour shortages
British Sandwich & Food to Go Association director Jim Winship on proposed changes to salary thresholds for migrant workers – and how they may not go far enough
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’Crickets don’t contain gluten, so we lost strength’
Roberts Bakery innovation director Alison Ordonez on the development of its Crunchy Cricket Loaf, which contains flour from 336 insects.
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’A push in the market to move away from bulk bakery mixes’
KaTech technical sales executive Stephen O’Neill on why bakery businesses are increasingly turning to scratch-based mixes.
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Would a CVA be right for your business?
Gareth Howlett, Senior associate, at law firm Blake Morgan, looks at how Company Voluntary Arrangements (CVAs) work, and asks if they are right for every business?
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’Fire extinguishers should be kept away from excess heat or cold’
Stanley Security UK fire product manager Michael Heasman GIFireE gives advice on best practice for the use of fire extinguishers in bakeries.
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’The industry knows how to look after its own’
As the year draws to a close, British Baker deputy editor Amy North looks back at the positive work being done across the baking industry.
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’Baked goods using new fermentation types and live cultures could be created’
Claire Nuttall, founder of The Brand Incubator, looks at how some of the key trends in food and drink could be applied to baked goods.
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’Some ingredients can help reduce sugar, but all have benefits and drawbacks’
Philippa Knight, senior product manager at Puratos UK, looks at the challenge of – and some of the possible solutions to – sugar reduction in baked goods.
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’We saw the very best of the Village People in those first 48 hours’
Robin Jones, managing director of Village Bakery, on the devastating blaze that struck business in August and how it has recovered.
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Bake Off 2019: who will be crowned champion?
It’s the Bake Off final! There’s a helter skelter, some very loud shirts and three nervous bakers. Correction, two nervous bakers and David, who is as cool as a cucumber.
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‘Carefully crafted food is far too good to waste’
Sadie Westwood, of behaviour change agency 23red, on activity to encourage catering businesses to combat food waste