Hotelympia: 28th April - 1st May

Hotelympia brings together the broadest range of future trends, fresh talent and new ideas to help the UK foodservice and hospitality industry push the boundaries in quality, innovation and sustainability.

Click here to view the second issue of the inaugural Hotleympia Ezine. This issue contains news of the 2014 Hotelympia Innovation awards, talk of craft beer, and a video interview with Salon director James Tanner. The final issue of the e-zine is published on April 10th , and will include an interactive floor-plan which should help you plan your trip to the show

Food, Drink and Hospitality

Further to my blog post of 10th December 2012, The full agenda for the Event being organised by the British Sociological Association’s Food Study Group, in conjunction with the Hospitality & Society Journal and Oxford Gastronomica, on Friday 14th of June 2013 can be found here

New resources!

Campden BRI

There is now a link to Campden BRI (The independent UK organisation that carries out research and development for the food and drinks industry worldwide) in the Athens list of resources. The site gives access to news, research and reports along with new technologies bulletins, project summaries, training and events schedules and access to other publications. A log-in is required for the Member zone. Please see the description of the resource in the Athens list for the log-in details.

Westburn Journals

2 new titles from Westburn Publishers are available in the IngentaConnect resource via Athens. They are: Journal of Customer Behaviour and (The) Marketing Review

Food, Drink and Hospitality: Space, Materiality, Practice

The British Sociological Association’s Food Study Group, in conjunction with the Hospitality & Society Journal and Oxford Gastronomica, Oxford Brookes University, are holding an event at the British Sociological Association’s London Meeting Room on Friday 14^th of June 2013.

There is a call for papers for those wishing to present. Abstracts of approximately 500 words should be sent to Peter Lugosi (plugosi@brookes.ac.uk) by Thursday the 28^th of February 2013.

More details, including booking instructions can be found here 

Jelly (Water) Babies

One post has led to another this morning. Whilst looking at the call for papers for the event next June by the Food Studies group of the British Sociological Association, which I've posted separately about, I came across the following interesting and inspiring talk transcript..  I shall never view a green jelly baby in quite the same way! :-)

National Eating out Week

This week (18th to the 24th November) sees the 3rd National Eating out Week. For more Info click here

It would appear that today has been set aside as 'In Praise of Casserole' day, and tomorrow will be 'In Praise of Spag Bol day' ! This theme continues for the rest of the week

Resource - change of name

Please note that the Datamonitor resource has now changed it's name to Marketline Advantage. You will neeed to scroll a little further down the Athens list to find it