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 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
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
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...
Foodservice leaders discuss future of nutrition at Kerry Taste conference
Kerry Taste and Nutrition, the Irish food company, hosted its first industry-wide conference where leaders from the foodservice industry, which featured speakers from Starbucks, McDonalds, and Greggs, met to discuss the future of nutrition. Speakers gathered at the...
