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Elizabeth David’s first cookery book, A Book of Mediterranean Food, was published almost 75 years ago in 1950 and it changed British eating habits forever. Our Ambassador of Women In the Food Industry and Writer, Antonia Lloyd, reviews the 2024 hardback reissue.

We are enormously proud and humbled to have Irini Tzortzoglou 2019 Masterchef Champion as one of our Ambassadors. She is a very busy woman but she took the time to share with us some of our latest news.

Hannah McCollum is the founder of ChicP – innovative hummus dips created from surplus and imperfect vegetables to support British farmers, help to create a circular economy and prevent food waste. Join Hannah at our Inspiring Urban Female Food Founders panel to discover how she turned her passion for food and vision to combat food waste into an award-winning business.

Rosie Joly is Sales Director of OTO CBD.  Before joining OTO in early 2019, Rosie’s career in food began as head of sales at PROPERCORN, where she helped grow the business from start-up to SME over the course of 4 years. Join Rosie at our  Inspiring Urban Female Food Founders panel where you can discover more about the challenges of marketing and selling CBD in the UK.

Who are the movers and shakers in the hospitality world that haven’t turned 30 yet? Once again CODE Hospitality – the  restaurant industry journal have highlighted the rising stars of the UK restaurant scene, both inside the kitchen and beyond it. This year’s list of 30 industry professionals includes many inspiring women.

In the seventh of our series of Female Food Founders interviews we look the world of tea. Although tea is one of the world’s most popular beverages, it tends not to be treated with the same reverence we see given to coffee.  We met Kim Havelaar founder of Roqberry Tea who is on a mission to blend the rules when it comes to tea.  Our tea loving co-founder, Mecca Ibrahim, chatted with Kim about about the world of tea, how to become a tea sommelier and how to make a product stand out in a crowded market.

2019 was the first all female finale of MasterChef and our co-founder, Mecca Ibrahim, was delighted to interview champion Irini Tzortzoglou about her experience on the show.  She caught up with Irini not long after she had returned to her home in  Cumbria after a working holiday to Crete, the place of her birth, to talk about what life was like after winning.

Although London prides itself on being one of the most multicultural foodies cities in the world, many Londoners have probably not tried Filipino food. Want to change that? Head over to Rowena Romulo’s restaurant in the heart of London for colourful and tasty experience.

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Carey has worked with an array of celebrity chefs and food bloggers and recently been asked to judge for the Great Taste Awards.

Melissa Cole is an award-winning beer writer, author and Certified Cicerone.

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