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Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face…

[Including excerpts from “Meadows: The Swedish Farmer & The Scottish Cook”] Describing certain traditional specialities can be challenging: my Dad once described oatcakes as porridge cookies… but haggis, is an

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Do it buy the Book!

When we flitted from Edinburgh and renovated our wee seaside retreat for full time living, our architect had a specific brief to follow: an antique butter churn, a Victorian knife

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The Staff of Life

As the seasons unfold, different delicacies take to the fore: artisan cheese after summer grazing; new season’s crab; North Ronaldsay sheep come new year and strawberries in June. For now,

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