LACA NEWS
14/03/2018 14:03
Having crowned LACA’s 2018 School Chef of the Year last week (8 March), we are excited to announce that Channel 5 featured the event during its 5pm news bulletin on Friday (9 March).
The full coverage can be viewed in the clip below:
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13/03/2018 07:03
New research has found that 41% of Brits think we’ll be eating lab-grown meat and fish in the next ten years – citing shortages as their main reason followed by environmental and sustainability concerns.
In a survey of 2,000 people, rising food costs were highlighted as a concern, with 90% of people that do a weekly shop saying they would “start cutting back on spending if they were to rise again” - admitting that fresh meat and fish would go before fruit and vegetables.
Undertaken by...
12/03/2018 13:03
Following the recent release of research it commissioned into the benefits of Universal Infant Free School Meals (UIFSM), LACA’s Spring Seminar looked closely at how it should work to defend the scheme.
Delegates at the Stratford Manor Hotel heard Natalie Perera, head of research at the Education Policy Institute, present the key findings, followed by Lee Pedar of Oakhill Communications, LACA’s political lobbying partner, who looked at the political dimension to the study.
Then an...
09/03/2018 10:03
Last night (8 March) saw LACA crown its 2018 School Chef of the Year – Michael Goulston from Peartree Spring Primary School (Hertfordshire) – after outshining the other nine finalists with his two-course meal created with an 11 year old school pupil in mind.
Representing the east of England, Goulston served a main course of oven-baked Southern crumbed chicken with herb mousseline, gnocchi and vegetables, and coconut cheesecake with pineapple and strawberry compote and tuille biscuit for dessert.
He said: “I am so proud to have won the...
09/03/2018 07:03
Recycling and waste management provider Biffa has launched its ‘Food for Fuel’ campaign, to encourage businesses to segregate and dispose of all quantities of food waste responsibly.
Compared to Scotland and Northern Ireland - where recycling food waste is, by law, mandatory for businesses – there is currently no legislation in place in England or Wales.
As such, company-lead research found that “inedible food waste makes up 40% of the UK’s total food wastage,” and...
08/03/2018 09:03
To mark the Royal Academy of Culinary Arts’s ‘Chefs Adopt a School Week,’ Essential Cuisine chefs are visiting schools across the country to host a number of “inspirational and fun” cookery workshops.
Designed to “help children develop healthy eating habits and encourage an enthusiasm and interest in food, cooking, food provenance and sustainability,” this is the second time Chefs Adopt a School and Hospitality in Schools are running ‘Chefs Adopt a School Week.’
Claiming the charities...
08/03/2018 07:03
Foodservice price inflation in the UK dipped to 2.5% in January, according to figures from the CGA Prestige Foodservice Price Index, primarily due to an easing of seasonal and supply trends. The figure is a fall from year-on-year inflation of 5.1% recorded in December 2017.
The 2.5% figure marks the lowest point reached by the index since early last year, and this may be an indication that some of the inflationary pressures that have beset the industry in the last couple of years might be easing, according to Christopher Clare, head of consulting and insight at...
06/03/2018 11:03
The UK’s leading hospitality trade body, UKHospitality, has warned Public Health England (PHE) not to overburden hospitality businesses as it unveiled its Calorie Reduction report.
The report unveiled new evidence surrounding childhood and adult obesity as well as further measures to combat the problem, including a challenge to the food industry to reduce calories in products consumed by families by 20% by 2024, along with the launch of the latest One You campaign,...
06/03/2018 10:03
Major steps to cut people’s excessive calorie intake have been unveiled by Public Health England (PHE), as part of the government’s strategy to cut childhood and adult obesity.
The package of measures includes:
* New evidence highlighting overweight or obese boys and girls consume up to 500 and 290 calories too many each day respectively
* A challenge to the food industry to reduce calories in products consumed by families by 20% by 2024
* The...
06/03/2018 09:03
Judges have completed their assessment of this year’s nominations for the Cost Sector Catering Awards and the shortlisted names in each category have been revealed.
All those shortlisted will be invited to the awards night on April 5th at the Hilton Metropole in Edgware Road, London for a gala evening when the winners in each category will be announced.
David Foad, editor of Cost Sector Catering magazine, said: “The judges have had their usual tough...
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