Scotland’s Larder: Iain R. Spink’s Original Smokies from Arbroath Catriona Thomson February 25, 2021 Producers Iain R. Spink has been called an unofficial ambassador for Arbroath Smokies, and he is never far away from his home port, where his family ran their fish processing factory for about 100 years. He gets a...
11 top pies from Scottish producers to try this British Pie Week Gaby Soutar February 25, 2021 Food, In the News To celebrate British Pie Week, we asked some of Scotland’s top pie-makers to tell us what their best-selling products are, and this is what they recommended. Notable Scottish pies must also go...
Scotland’s Larder: Jamie Brown from Jarvis Pickle Pies Catriona Thomson February 22, 2021 Producers One of the events during British Pie Week is the British Pie Awards, but this year, the organisers of the fiercely contested awards took the decision to postpone until later in the summer or early autumn due...
Scotland’s Larder: Rob Paton from The Fat Batard Bakery, Peebles Catriona Thomson February 12, 2021 Producers Rob Paton from The Fat Batard Bakery, Peebles has obviously got a wicked sense of humour when it came to naming his shop which he opened in January last year, "just in time for lockdown," he said. The...
Aberdeenshire family farm celebrate rise in sales thanks to customers shopping local at fresh produce vending machines Rosalind Erskine February 3, 2021 Food, In the News Thorneybank Farm Shop near Inverurie, which made headlines in 2017 after being the first shop in the UK to install digital vending machines selling fresh produce, has revealed that the no-contact technology...
Scotland’s Larder: Andrew Skea from The Potato House Catriona Thomson February 3, 2021 Producers Whether it is for baking, boiling, roasting, making chips or for mash, Andrew Skea knows a thing or two about the humble potato. Andrew’s grandfather was involved in growing seed potatoes on a mixed...
Scotland’s Larder: Selina Cairns from Errington Cheese Catriona Thomson January 29, 2021 Producers Selina Cairns was born in Dumfries but moved to Walston Braehead Farm, Lanark when she was two. Humphrey, her father, went into dairy sheep in the early 80's. She tells us that her father didn't have a...
Scotland’s larder: Bryce Cunningham from Mossgiel dairy farm Catriona Thomson January 15, 2021 Producers Bryce Cunningham from Mossgiel dairy farm in Ayrshire shares a connection with a certain ploughman poet. Robert Burns lived at the farm between 1784 -86 and along with his brother Gilbert, they worked...
Scottish businesses named as finalists in national Food and Travel Reader Awards Rosalind Erskine January 13, 2021 Food, In the News The six Scottish businesses named as finalists in the awards are: The Kitchin, Edinburgh School of Food and Wine, Restaurant Andrew Fairlie, Balgove Larder, The Peat Inn and Haar. The Food and Travel Reader...
Scotland’s Larder: Stuart Cannon, from Kames Fish Farming Catriona Thomson January 7, 2021 Producers Stuart Cannon grew up living on a mixed arable farm in Lincolnshire and he was expected to take on the family farm but was quite keen to have his own venture. It was an article in the Farmers Weekly that got...
