As the wind buffeted plane completed it’s journey across the Pentland Firth and touched down in Kirkwall it immediately became evident that Orkney was unique. A land of ancient [...]
It’s fair to say that this has been an interesting year of many highlights – I’ve grown in confidence in the art of cooking over fire, had a first seasonal recipe pull-out [...]
I often wonder where the Scottish love of macaroni (and) cheese began, in fact the love of macaroni in general. I read my Gran’s cookbooks from the twenties and macaroni was already a [...]
The Orkney Islands off Scotland’s north coast are well known for their Norse connections. Indeed Orkney was ruled by Norway for several hundred years with the Vikings first arriving around [...]
An introduction to Scotland and her whisky The French have a word, a romantic and mystical term, for the synergy between soil, climate and topography. It is this synergy that creates the finest [...]
