Kokova Magazine

Competition now closed. Congratulations to Kelly Foxley (Derbyshire).

As ever we are always on the search for a good 'free from' loaf and at the Natural & Organic Trade Show earlier this month we discovered a great little bread mix that is not only gluten and wheat free but soy, milk and yeast free too. So with an air of trepidation and a pinch of curiosity we headed over to the Sukrin stand at the show to see if their bread passed our taste test. And we were pleasantly surprised by what we found.

EqualiTea was born from the frustration and difficulty of finding an alternative to the regular selection of English breakfast teabags available in the UK. Not that there is anything wrong with a good Breakfast Tea but occasionally something different can make a welcome change.

Freedom Deli, one of the UK's most exciting and fastest growing free-from food producers, is celebrating a further accolade for its range of chilled and frozen gluten-free and wheat-free ready meals, pastries and filled paninis, following last night's Free From Food Awards 2013 in London, where Freedom Deli received the top award in the Ready Meals category for its Ham and Cheese Gluten-Free Panini.

The winners of this year's FreeFrom Food Awards 2013 were announced this week (Tuesday 16th April) by chef, Antony Worrall Thompson at an Awards evening in London. Overall winner of the FAIR Trophy for Best FreeFrom Food 2013 was a luxury lemon coconut 'ice cream' from Bessant and Drury, with judges commenting on how great it is "to have a product which excludes all of the major allergens yet both looks and tastes like a fully fledged, upmarket, luxury food". Other winning products included a fresh chickpea pasta from Dell'Ugo, gluten-free panini from Freedom Deli, a gluten and dairy-free hot chocolate fudge pudding from Glamourpuds and a nut-free 'peanut butter' from Eskal.

After going gluten free in 2009 Ann Perkins discovered a few things; first she started to feel a lot better and had loads more energy; second, she realised she had a lot less choice in food, and that a lot of gluten free food is inferior in quality and more expensive than the gluten containing alternative. So in 2011, Ann, together with Steven Turner, decided to give up their jobs and think of ways they could make life better for everyone who has to avoid eating gluten. And PERK!ER was established in 2012.