Producers

One of the real joys of holidaying in Scotland is getting to discover local producers and cook with their produce. This year whilst in Gairloch I had the delights of fresh picked local [...]

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 [...]

If you had to ask for a list of the top five Scottish foods I think there’s a good chance that tattie scones would sneak in there. They’re the ubiquitous comfort food that no matter [...]

While panzanella and potato salad may be the star sideshows of the barbecue season it is fairly clear in most people’s minds cooking over hot coals means only one thing. Meat. But what does meat [...]

As you walk into The Old Butchershop in Roy Bridge, home of Great Glen Charcuterie you are enveloped by an amazing aroma that speaks of passion, of integrity and of quality. The soft sweet oak [...]

I think the marriage of Scottish produce with Spanish flavours is  fairly sublime. So do the Spanish I imagine, they import enough wonderful seafood from these shores. A couple of years ago Anja [...]

In a world where the supermarket and the multinational is king it is undoubtedly more important than ever that there are niche suppliers with a focus on quality, welfare and provenance. When a [...]

Sascha Grierson of Grierson Organic is someone that I have followed for a long time and taken inspiration from her philosophy on food and farming as well as for the quality of the Grierson [...]

Five minutes chatting to Iain McKellar of justseaweed.com about the range of products he forages off the Isle of Bute on the beautiful Scottish west coast was enough to have me more than a little [...]

Hogget. It’s one of those words that requires further investigation isn’t it, like a tantalising little conundrum? ‘What is hogget you ask? Ah well my dear boy, tis a little [...]