Bruno Loubet, who earned a Michelin star as head chef at the Inn on the Park, and now has two of his own restaurants, was kind enough to name our quinoa as one of his four cupboard essentials. So I decided to pop along to his new venture, the Grain Store, near Kings Cross to say hi and see what he was rustling up with it. The Grain Store is a powerful new concept, where vegetables and grains take pride of place on the plate, with meat playing  second fiddle. This unusual reversal of roles earned him the accolade of...

On a recent trip to Dublin, I had the pleasure of popping down to Avoca’s Monkstown store to see their Quinola display. A beautifully furnished store and restaurant, that managed to make everything feel very homey. And when you are set in that type of environment everything becomes very appetising too! Thank you Avoca for trying out our new delicious and healthy Baby food range, despite the packaging being in French.

With a recent order from Estonia, you will now be able to find our products in some of the Selver supermarkets in Estonia. Just over a year from launch that will be our tenth market to which we supply our products. You won’t of course find us on every street corner, but the quality establishments of all these countries have voted with their wallets and decided to stock our range of quinoa. When customers want the best, then you have to stock Alice & Oscar’s Quinola Mothergrain! I am reliably told by an Estonian friend of mine that Selver is...

On a trip to London last week, to see our friends at Planet Organic, I was delighted to see our initial Quinola baby range being trialled in their Westbourne Grove store. Super healthy and tasty, its a world apart from other savoury offerings on the shelf. With the complete vegetable protein of quinoa replacing the animal protein you would find in almost all savoury baby meals, baby gets a far healthier feed. It also happens to be very ecological- 1 calorie of beef needs about 50 vegetable calories, without talking of all those green house gas farts coming out the...