Specialist Writing

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I am a catering geek. A fair proportion of the food that we eat is cooked and prepared by other people, and how that impacts our lives interests me deeply. I know, it’s a bit weird.

As a nation we eat one in six meals outside the home, which accounts for up to 25% of our daily calorie intake. With menu labelling, the public health deal and school dinners being frequent stories in the press, you can see it’s a wide-ranging  and detailed subject area.

I’ve written on the subject for The Guardian, The Times, Caterer and Hotelkeeper, Hospitality, Cost Sector Catering and other national, trade, consumer, specialist and B2B magazines.

As the nutrient-based standards were applied to secondary school meals following the Jamie Oliver revolution, I wrote a series of more than ten features across three months of Cost Sector Catering on the run up to the LACA Summit. In the process I interviewed around 30 key names in government, health, public sector catering, the School Food Trust, unions and other catering experts, leading one prominent PR to describe me as ‘the most informed journalist on school meals’.

_In the year of their inception I also wrote and edited two customer magazines for Pelican, a catering industry purchasing company. The Pelican covers their education sector work; PQ represents the hospitality sector.

I've just launched the website School Food World which aims to report, promote and celebrate best practice and innovation in schools catering around the world.