Nutrition Training News

Valentine’s Day is a little bit like Marmite – you either love the chance to be romantic for a day or you hate the commerciality of it. One group of people who must surely love Valentine’s Day is florists. I’m guessing that today and Mother’s Day are amongst their most profitable of the year. Here’s […]

Back in the day a ‘proper’ fry-up meant bacon, sausages, fried eggs, fried bread, beans, tomatoes, mushrooms and possibly black pudding, all fried in lard. In fact it wasn’t unusual for children to be sent on their way to school having consumed bacon and tomato or sausage and egg for breakfast. Nowadays the fashion seems

‘Night of the Radishes’ might sound like second cousin to ‘Attack of the Killer Tomatoes’ or some other old B Movie, but believe it or not it’s actually the name of a festival which takes place in Mexico on 23rd December. Whereas in the UK, the radish is an acquired taste and is often left

VWA trainer and Leeds Metropolitan University food expert, Gill Hooper, is urging aspiring chefs to host a Cook for a Cure dinner party to boost funds for Alzheimer’s Research UK, the UK’s leading dementia research charity. The new initiative has also won support from some of the UK’s top TV chefs. Gill’s recipes are listed