From Market Stalls to Spirit Stills: Celebrating Homecoming Scotland
We are often asked so how do you choose which Scottish produce to showcase on your food and drink walking tours? Well, it generally depends on the weather and who has arrived at Scotland's largest Farmers' Market. With an incredible footfall of between 6-10,000 people per week, musicians plucking or drumming out tunes aplenty and of course the most incredible location with Edinburgh Castle as the backdrop, Edinburgh Farmers' Market is most definitely our favourite place to start. Today we tried the 2 new oils from cold pressed rapeseed oil experts Summer ...
Eating, Walking & Talking in Edinburgh
There has been so much going on at Tasting Scotland HQ we can't even begin to start. Above all else, this year to date, we have enjoyed nothing more than creating a complete range of unique food and drink experiences that allow you to get the true taste of Scotland in one wholesome bite.We are looking forward to meeting all the fine folks who have booked one of our itineraries or food, wine and whisky tasting experiences in 2014 or are beginning to work with us to custom design a holiday/vacation in 2015 and beyond.We are also delighted to announce a brand new partne...
Modern Food Producers: Today’s Scottish Enlightenment?
The Scots: still as proud, passionate and inventive as ever then. The proof was in the pudding, or actually on the stand. With so many new products and flavours experienced at this years Scotland’s Speciality Food Fair, I am blown away yet again by the adventurous, yet seemingly palate perfect flavour accomplishments that were showcased. I can’t wait to share these latest taste innovations with you when you join us on one of our eating and drinking gourmet journeys through Scotland or at one of our artisan tasting events. Take for example a fudge combination ...
The King of Smoked Fish
This year we have decided to give some recommendations on where to get some of the bare essentials for making an ultra special Scottish foodie Christmas. Today we look at the quintessential king of smoked fish, Salmon. Although Scottish Smoked Salmon is still considered somewhat a luxury food item, steady supply has maintained the prices at relatively the same levels they were years ago, making it an affordable food item that can be enjoyed for breakfast, lunch, dinner or as a snack. Salmon can be of course be farmed or wild. The latter is rarer and more expensive. Both ...
Christmas Pudding: The tradition of Stir Up Sunday (And an early Day 1 of our 12 days of Christmas!)
So today is ‘Stir Up Sunday’, the day you should make your Christmas Pudding. We have been thinking about Christmas for weeks already, due to the release of our 2013 Natural Scotland Hamper range (have a look if you haven’t seen the range), and it feels great and wholly acceptable to really start talking about the festive.With various Christmas themed Scottish artisan food tasting events in the diary and no doubt a few too many bottles of Cairn O’Mohr Scottish fruit wine tested before the events have even started (for quality purposes naturally) we do love Christ...
2 festive gifts – 1 luxury package: The launch of ‘Natural Scotland’ hampers 2013
The Champagne has been popped! Today, we launched our 2013 luxury festive hampers in tribute to Visit Scotland's 2013 'Year of Natural Scotland'. But how did we set about creating that perfect gift for your friends, family or clients?It certainly helped that when I sat down with our partners for this project, the supremely talented floral designer Nicole Dalby of Glasgow based 'Flowers and Design' that we were most definitely choosing from the same menu. For starters we both wanted to create a unique collection that hadn't been offered before; a fusion of fine foods and ...
