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James McIntosh, Whisk – A Fresh Approach to Home Economics
James' knowledge and passion for food stems from his childhood on a farm in Northern Ireland with a Home Economics teacher mother, and his father an Aberdeen Angus farmer. He obtained an HND in Food, Consumer and Marketing Management from the University of Ulster and an MA in Food and Consumer Studies from the University of Dundee. After graduating he worked as a Home Economist, developing ready meals for retail, and then moved to become Recipe Development Officer at the world famous Le Cordon Bleu cookery school in Marylebone. After this, he was a Consumer Researcher at the Good Housekeeping Institute in London. From 2000 - 2004 he was a trustee for an HIV nutrition charity - The Food Chain and has lectured extensively on HIV meal planning in North America. In 2004 after winning a scholarship to represent the UK at the World Home Economics conference in Japan he set up Whisk, a Home Economics consultancy specialising in cookery and domestic appliance demonstrations. Clients include Aga, Antony Worrall Thompson, Easy Living Magazine, British Airways, Le Creuset and Tefal. As a member of the International Federation of Home Economics he will be a keynote speaker at the World Home Economics congress in Lucern, Switzerland, in July 2008. |
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Jenni Muir, Food Writer and Demonstrator
Jenni is a freelance journalist writing regularly on food, restaurants, shops, hotels and food-related health issues. Her book A Cook's Guide To Grains (Conran Octopus) was nominated for The Glenfiddich Awards, The Guild of Food Writers Awards, The Andre Simon Prize and the World Gourmand Cookbook Awards. She spends much of the year working as editor of Time Out Eating & Drinking Guide, blogs for www.bbcgoodfood.com and helps top chefs and other cookery experts from around the world get their ideas into print. Her work has appeared in The Independent, Sunday Times, BBC Good Food Magazine, Easy Living, Country Living, Food and Travel, Marie Claire and the Saturday Express. She is based in London but returns frequently to her native Australia. |
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Nellie Nichols, Food Consultant
Nellie is an acclaimed expert within the Food Industry who has been listed as one of the top 10 women in that sector by the national press. Adept at identifying and developing new food ingredients and concepts with a faultless ability to transform them into commercially viable products, her clients include Pret a Manger, Leathams plc and Greencore.
As a Food Consultant she specialises in Food Development – NPD, training and sourcing of all food across retail, restaurants and manufacture. |
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Sarah Hull, Senior Scientist, Leatherhead Food International
Sarah joined the Nutrition and Health department at LFI in 2004, after graduating from the University of Bristol with a degree in Chemistry. She is heavily involved in the forum research programme, both as a project leader and in her role as Forum Liaison Officer. She is responsible for the running of several forum, confidential and collaborative research projects in 2007. Her primary responsibilities include organising the Nutrition and Health Forum activities, running LFI’s Human Nutrition Research Unit, including its glycaemic index testing service, and cell culture studies. |
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Tom Beeston, Project Head, Local to London Project
Tom is a past farmer and food campaigner who is passionate about good quality, locally produced food. He now runs the ‘Local to London’ scheme - a collaboration between New Covent Garden Market, the fruit and vegetable wholesale market, and the South East Food Group Partnership - to get more local food on the capital’s plates. |
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