Tennis player Heather Watson – the first woman to make it through to the third round of Wimbledon for a decade – has attributed her success to a week of eating smoked salmon and eggs for breakfast with toast on the side. There’s no harm in trying. What’s your lucky breakfast?
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Today saw a report suggesting that images of fatty and sugary foods trigger hunger.  The research found that pictures of high-calorie foods stimulate the brain’s appetite-control centre and leads to an increased desire to eat.  
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Launched today, businesses signing up to the NEW ‘Hospitality and Foodservice Agreement’ will be required to cut their waste and divert more of what’s left to recycling, composting and anaerobic digestion (AD) than landfill. The agreement aims to:
cut food and associated packaging waste by 5% (a reduction of 234,000 tonnes of carbon), or the equivalent [...]
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This week it’s 150 years since Rowntree was founded.  Could the two brothers ever have known the appetite they were about to unleash when they took over a struggling cocoa importer in York and started selling drinking chocolate?  The company, now owned by Nestle, has produced some of the most-loved chocolate brands including: Smarties, Kit [...]
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An article in today’s Guardian discusses what type of environment can help you be more creative.  Following a group of students at the University of British Columbia, they were asked to perform various creative writing tasks while experiencing different volumes of noise in a ‘Restaurant Experience Study’.  The study found that a moderate volume of [...]
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This was the theme for the ‘Brand U’ session our boss, Anita, gave to a room packed full of women about the importance of personal branding. In her own words, Anita said: “Speaking at the Women 1st Conference last week and talking to a room full of women at the top of their game – [...]
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Today’s headline looks at Indian restaurants in Birmingham who have launched an application for the city’s Balti dish to be given protected EU status. If successful, the name “Birmingham Balti” would be given EU protected name status, meaning only curries conforming to a precise recipe and cooking method could use the name reports Caterer and [...]
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Today’s headline focuses on the story that ministers were dubbed ‘milk snatchers’ yesterday amid plans to slash spending on the free drink for under-fives. Nurseries and child-minders face a cap on cash they get to fund the drink, reported The Sun and The Independent.
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Health Secretary Andrew Lansley and BBC Celebrity MasterChef winner Lisa Faulkner dined on board the an ‘Ambu-lunch’ this morning outside the Houses of Parliament. The ‘light’ lunch, as part of a campaign launch by Unilever Food Solutions, encourages chefs to cut calories from meals eaten out of home in a bid to tackle Britain’s obesity [...]
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Today’s top headline tells us that If the whole world slimmed down through liposuction our excess fat would fill a lake the size of Derwent Water, and if we converted humanity’s fat into energy it could replace a nuclear power station for 20 years, say scientists from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine [...]
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