Aberdeenshire chef wins national seafood competition

Aberdeenshire chef wins national seafood competition

Ross Cochrane, executive chef at Rothesay Rooms in Ballater, Royal Deeside, has been announced as the winner of Seafood Scotland’s national #PrideofPlate competition.  Hundreds of voters backed the Aberdeenshire chefs winning dish which consisted of Scottish scallops,...

Weetabix refreshes manufacturing leadership team

Weetabix refreshes manufacturing leadership team

Weetabix has restructured its manufacturing leadership team, introducing two new roles following the departure of Patrick Rigby as group operations director. John Petre, previously head of technical, has been promoted to the new position of supply chain and technical...

British food standards the benchmark for trade deals, says NFU

British food standards the benchmark for trade deals, says NFU

National Farmers Union (NFU) president, Minette Batters, called on the Government to ensure Britain maintains its position as a benchmark for global animal welfare standards amid talks of potential trade deals with the US. Opening the NFU’s annual conference, Batters...

Giving up meat won’t save the planet: City Food Lecture 2020

Giving up meat won’t save the planet: City Food Lecture 2020

Professor Louise Fresco, the keynote speaker of this year's City Food Lecture, claimed that giving up meat is not the answer to the climate change crisis, before calling for more to be done on tackling global food waste. As part of her lecture entitled ‘Fish nor flesh...