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...
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...
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...
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...
Scotland’s Larder: Evonne Morrison from Superkraut and Good Nude Food Catriona Thomson December 31, 2020 Food, Producers Superwoman is a good description of Evonne Morrison - she runs her health food business from Weisdale in Shetland whilst being mum to lively twins, Ronnie and Savannah, who are now two and a half years...
Scotland’s Larder: Katy and her daughter Helena, from Katy Rodger’s artisan dairy Catriona Thomson December 24, 2020 Producers The Knockraich farm operation is owned and run by Robert Rodger: his wife Katy and daughter Helena are in charge of the multi-award winning artisan dairy, while his other daughter Catherine, manages the cafe...
Scotland’s Larder: Jillian and Neil McEwan, from Lunan Bay Goat Farm Catriona Thomson December 17, 2020 Producers The Yule Goat is a Germanic or Scandinavian character who makes sure that festive preparations are done correctly; but they like to get up to all sorts of mischief around Christmas time. I tracked down Neil...
