General Food Links

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EBLEX (the English Beef and Lamb Executive) represents the interests of English beef and lamb levy payers; to encourage and facilitate the industry to become more efficient as consumers’ needs change. The objective of EBLEX is to create a sustainable and competitive beef and lamb sector. It also owns the EBLEX Quality Standard Mark, which is the UK's only assurance scheme to include an eating quality requirement for beef and lamb.

The Gelatine Manufacturers of Europe (GME) is a Brussels-based organisation representing the nine largest western European gelatine manufacturers. With some 3,000 employees, these companies account for over 42 per cent of the world’s gelatine production. The GME’s main task is to provide customers with a cross-border guarantee of gelatine of the highest quality, subjected to scrupulous selection of raw materials and a multi-layered manufacturing process. For further information about gelatine, recipe photography, or a free copy of the All About Gelatine booklet, please contact Jessica Storr-Hoggins at Pleon Public Relations (020 7479 5633) or Geoff Beattie (020 7479 5656).

thinkvegetables.co.uk is an excellent source of information about vegetables: how to use and store them, nutritional information, and a range of recipes. There is also a library of images for downloading of all the vegetables and the recipes featured.

The Marine Stewardship Council's role is to recognise well-managed fisheries through its certification programme, and to harness consumer preference for products bearing the MSC label of approval. The MSC is a non-profit international organisation.

Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming advocates food and agriculture policies and practices that enhance the health and welfare of people and animals, improve the working and living environment, enrich society and culture and promote equity.

The Taste of England website is a portal site for sourcing speciality food and drink and is aimed at the discerning food enthusiast. The site also provides a range of essential services to producer members, listings of farmers' markets and other related services.

Country Markets are found in over 450 retail outlets across England, Wales and the Channel Islands. They sell a range of baked goods, preserves, eggs and honey, garden produce and crafts. However, all Markets are different – the produce range is dependent upon local producers and their specialities.

Food from Britain is essentially a government-sponsored trade and marketing organisation representing food and drink producers and manufacturers in Britain.

The Vegetarian Society offers information about food production, nutrition, recipes, books and much more.

The British Nutrition Foundation is a charitable organisation that works in partnership with academic and research institutes, the food industry, educators and government to promote the nutritional well-being of society through the impartial interpretation and effective dissemination of scientifically based nutritional knowledge and advice.

Slow Food is an international organisation that originated in Italy (where else?) and is dedicated to the preservation of real, artisan-made foods and food products, to the protection of food heritage and culture, and simply to the encouragement and appreciation of enjoying real foods in an age when mass production, fast food and commercial interests threaten such pleasures.

The Tufts University Nutrition Navigator is a rating and review guide for nutrition sites on the web, developed by a panel of prestigious US and Canadian nutrition experts.

Greenpeace: The debate about the development and introduction of genetically modified or engineered foods (GMOs) has been a matter of considerable concern to food writers and everybody concerned with what we eat. Greenpeace takes a strong campaigning stand in favour of GE-free foods.

Just Food has news and features on food matters, and up-to-date coverage of food news stories.

Romeo Jones is a new deli at 80 Dulwich Village, London SE21 7AJ (telephone: 020 8299 1900), info@romeojones.co.uk . They specialise in top quality Italian and English artisan foods and offer coffee, soups, salads and tasting platters of cheeses and antipasti to eat in, plus home-made filled bagels to eat in or take away.
They offer Guild members a 20% discount on everything on production of the GFW membership card.