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September 2010

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*Stop Press - June 2010*

MTA Chairman Jennipher Marshall-Jenkinson will be showing listeners how to make the best of quick and simple summer cooking, including food for BBQ's whilst being the live guest in the studios on both the Anne Diamond show on Friday 4th June 2010 on BBC Radio Berkshire and on Wednesday 9th June on the Jo Good show on BBC Radio London. For more information, contact Jennipher direct - through 'Contact us..' on this website.
For more information contact Jennipher direct or BBC Radio London and BBC Radio Berkshire through their websites.

Jennipher is also delighted to inform readers that the cook-book - Microwave Magic - The Art of 21st Century cooking, has been short listed for the 'Peoples Book Prize', for the months of November, December and January 2010. For more information or to vote for the book see www.peoplesbookprize.com

*Stop Press - June 2009*
MTA's Technical Officer Gordon Andrews has, in conjunction with Heinz just launched the smallest microwave oven in the world.. 
For more information see the Press Release below or contact Gordon Andrews, MD of GAMA Microwave Technology Ltd. via this link. Gama Consultants

*Stop Press - May 2009*
MTA Member Bob Schiffmann has a new website www.microwaveinnovations.com .
*Stop Press - May 2009*
Please look out for MTA's Chairman: Jennipher Marshall-Jenkinson as guest presenter on the UKTV food programme - 'The Market Kitchen'.

*Stop Press:*
MTA's Chairman - Jennipher Marshall-Jenkinson - gave a joint cooking show with 'Times food writer - richard Ehrlich, at the recent Abergavenny Food Festival which was held over the weekend of 20 - 21st September.
Here is a précis of the feature Richard wrote about the event in ‘The Times’.
The full feature can be read at:
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/article4892295.ece
From The Times
October 11, 2008

Green kitchen: new wave cooking
The eco credentials of microwave recipes

Richard Ehrlich
At the Abergavenny Food Festival last month, I gave a joint demonstration on low-energy cooking with Jennipher Marshall-Jenkinson, chairman of the Microwave Technologies Association. My spiel was about pressure cookers. No prizes for guessing what Marshall-Jenkinson talked about.

Among the dishes she cooked was a steamed toffee pudding which took all of seven minutes (and looked and tasted great). And watching her work made me think about two semi-imminent events. One is Energy Saving Week, which runs from October 20-26. The other is Christmas. Since you may already be planning on cooking your Christmas pudding, Marshall-Jenkinson and I both plead: cook it in your microwave.

Marguerite Patten, Britain’s senior cookery writer and a long-time microwave advocate, has published a microwave Christmas pudding recipe that calls for ten minutes of cooking. According to an analysis for Defra, cooking Christmas pud on an electric hob uses somewhere between 7.5 and 10 times more electricity than cooking it in a microwave.

What does that mean for the nation? Look at it this way: for every 10,000 Christmas puddings cooked from scratch in the microwave, we eliminate around 26,000 kWh of electricity use – enough to run 250 full-size dishwashers twice a week for a year. We also save tens of thousands of litres of water. And these savings increase if the pud is then heated for serving in the microwave. Similar savings can be made cooking rather more everyday dishes such as baked potatoes in the microwave.

Learn more about Energy Saving Week at http://tinyurl.com/54d7gs. Marshall-Jenkinson’s excellent book Microwave Magic: The Art of 21st Century Cooking (£12.95) can be purchased at www.microwaveassociation.org.uk .

greenkitchen@thetimes.co.uk

*Stop Press - September 2008*
The MTA website has been updated again. Published in the Members Section are the 'Minutes' of the recent Members meeting which was held at the offices of InterTek on 22nd May, 2008.
The Autumn edition of 'Highlights' is also now available for viewing in the Members Section.
Lastly don't forget to lookout for the date & venue of the next Microwave Technologies Association members meeting,
which will be held 23rd October, 2008 at the offices of Amdea in central London.

*Stop Press - October 2007*
The MTA is delighted to congratulate our President - Marguerite Patten, on receiving the "Woman of the Year - Life time Achievement Award" , which was presented to her in a prestigious ceremony on Monday 15th October. For many years Marguerite has inspired generations of women to cook good healthy nourishing food for their families. During changing times and trends she has been true to her self and her good cooking ethics. Supporting our Association is a great accolade, for which we thank Marguerite very much. Jennipher Marshall-Jenkinson, Chairman"