She says that issues such as rising prices and uncertainty of supply offer the chance to rethink our entire food system and reset it to operate in a much more sustainable and positive way.
Her work recently has seen her being instrumental in setting up industry working groups for school chefs, with LACA, and for hospital caterers, with the HCA and the Hospital Food Review Team.
She has organised farm visits for NHS caterers to show them the environmental and nutritional reasons for buying from British farmers and is rolling out this year a full programme of national farm visits . She has also presented the case for British food to every HCA regional branch. As a result, Northern Ireland hospitals will be taking part in 2023 under the umbrella ‘Celebrating Northern Irish food during British Food Fortnight’.
Defra is now supporting her public sector work, helping promote it through the media, producing films of chefs talking about why they buy British and proposing ministerial site visits.
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