A guest post from @Haveforkwilleat – thank you! If you had asked me two weeks ago about visiting a complete strangers house along with another sixteen people I didn’t know, I would have said you were mad. But this is the concept of a secret supper club, visiting a host…
Buckwheat’s not just for blinis. In recent months I’ve been enjoying this ingredient in several ways: as flour, in soba noodles and as the full ‘grain’. Buckwheat is wheat and gluten free (if that’s important to you) but the thing that makes me fond of it is its flavour. It has more flavour than…
By all accounts Michael Smith cut quite a dash in Manhattan on a recent visit with Visit Scotland. The kilted chef (@Kiltcuisine on Twitter) certainly stood out at the recent Taste of Edinburgh Festival. He was relishing the fact that there were so many real food lovers around that weekend. I…
This post could consist of just 4 words. You Must Eat There. I will however, write a little more and leave you with the photographs and some impressions to savour. Bookings are slightly easier to make now, but count on waiting 3 months unless you are very lucky. Mark 1st…
If you live in a city like myself, it’s too easy not to escape once in a while. But when you do, it can be just like being on holiday. Recently, Mr EF and I drove into Fife to St Monans, just an hour and a quarter’s drive from Edinburgh. …
Martin Wishart and Paul Tamburrini are launching The Honours, a brasserie in the heart of Edinburgh. Together, they are hoping to make an exciting space with excellent food. Where Wishart’s is formal fine dining, this new venture will be informal, relaxed and child friendly and the quality of food and…
Clare Rennie took some time out of her very busy pre Taste of Edinburgh festival preparations to tell us about Berry Scrumptious, a small company based on the family fruit farm in Aberdeenshire run by husband and wife team Claire & Ross Rennie. The farm is situated on the north…
Salads are no longer ordinary, nor do they have to come from some anonymous far flung location. Those salads in plastic pillow packs were likely to have been washed in chemicals to keep them fresh. So, we were very excited to hear of saladworx, Scotland Food and Drink Excellence Awards…
For the first three years of Taste of Edinburgh I went to it with my good friends Hamish and Rebecca. In March this year, they moved to Tennessee and I rashly vowed not to go to Taste Edinburgh without them. Luckily, Edinburgh isn’t the only city that has a Taste…
I’ve said it before: the internet is a wonderful thing. Recently, Canned Food UK ran an online press conference featuring celebrity chef James Martin and nutritionist Amanda Hamilton. For half an hour, the two answered questions about picnic and camping food and discussed recipes and nutrition. (You’ll find some easy-to-make…
