FEC highly commended at Glenfiddich Food & Drink Awards

On behalf the Food Ethics Council (FEC), Executive Director Tom MacMillan was shortlisted for the Independent Spirit Award at this year’s Glenfiddich Food & Drink Awards. Previous winners of the award include Jamie Oliver and Jeanette Orrey for their work on school dinners.

The award was won by Myrtle Allen, the pioneering writer, cook and founder of the famous Ballymaloe House restaurant, guesthouse and cookery school in Ireland. The FEC was highly commended by the judges. Presenting the award, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, praised the FEC’s “fearlessness” and “complete independence” noting that:

“The Food Ethics Council has been working since 1998, often behind the scenes but often with significant results, to change the way public food policy is formulated.”

The awards ceremony in London was attended by some of the UK’s best-known chefs and food writers, including Raymond Blanc, Clarissa Dickson-Wright, Heston Blumenthal and Giorgio Locatelli.