Scottish Taste Buddies  Food and drink can be merely consumables necessary to sustain the holidaymaker or can be carefully chosen to be savoured and remembered as part of the whole enjoyable Scottish holiday experience. Scottishfoodguide.com is dedicated to the latter and happy to be associated with other enterprises, initiatives or ideas of like mind. To this end we have created Scottish Taste Buddies as a showcase for kindred spirits.

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Enquiries		Scottish Cheese Trail Cheeseboard				Comments
		Edinburgh,   Tel:				This attractive cheese tile is one of a limited edition commissioned by Wendy Barrie to celebrate the craft of the artisan cheesemaker and to support small rural enterprises in Scotland. Ideal for that wedge of handmade cheese and an excellent reminder of where to look for that charming place to eat and stay. A perfect gift for the foodie friend. £5 incl p&p (UK). Available through SFG.

Enquiries		The Royal Environmental Health Institute of Scotland				Comments
		new offices from January so will update Edinburgh,   Tel: 0131 225 6999				Promoting the advancement of health, hygiene and safety in Scotland. Based in Edinburgh REHIS is an independent self-financing Scottish registered charity promoting education and professional practice in environmental health. REHIS acts as the awarding body for a number of qualifications in Food Safety, Food and Health and Occupational Health and Safety, details of which are available from their office.

Enquiries		Farmhouse Breakfast Week				Comments
		For further information on Farmhouse Breakfast Week please contact: HGCA, Caledonia House, 223 Pentonville Road, London. n/a,  N1 9HY Tel: 020 7520 3968				Farmhouse Breakfast Week is held in late January. Farmhouse Breakfast encourages everyone to Get Active with the theme ‘Make Time for It’. Organised by the Home-Grown Cereals Authority (HGCA), the campaign flags up the benefits of a healthy balanced breakfast: Not only is it a great way to kick start mind and body for the day ahead, but it’s a fantastic excuse to sample the wealth of delicious high-quality regional breakfast products which are produced in this country, from local bacon and sausages to speciality breads and morning bakes. In the meantime let's celebrate the farmhouse sausage and the speciality breads all year round!

Enquiries		Restaurant Tranan				Comments
		Kallgatan 12 Sibbhult Skane Sweden International,  280 63 Tel: 0046 44 489 20				Our first international Taste Buddy ! Restaurant Tranan is the highly regarded Chef Training Restaurant in Skane, South Sweden, run on Slow Food principles by husband and wife team Paul and Kerstin Seugling. We were invited to a Slow Food event here at Easter where there were many and varied themes from school meal discussions to GMO debates, all of course punctuated with delicious meals! This is a world famous Chef School and Scottish Food Guide was delighted to be asked to find a chef placement for them and this autumn there will be a chef from Tranan on work experience in a fine highland hotel. More later.

Enquiries		Eider Cottage				Comments
		Aberdour,   Tel:				Experience Wendy Barrie's unique seaside studio cottage with panoramic views. Built & equipped to exceptionally high standard. Ideal base to explore the fine foods of Fife with excellent train links to Edinburgh. Sleeps 2. Click for further information.

Enquiries		Pots Pans and Pixels				Comments
		Contact via website Edinburgh,   Tel:				Great things sometimes come in small packages and Wendy Barrie’s light-hearted cookbook will strain neither purse nor coffee table. Nor will it endanger the rain forests. What this practical little book will do, well above its shipping weight, is amuse and inform. ‘Pots, Pans and Pixels’ is a cheery kitchen companion, a soufflé of favourite recipes served with a sprinkling of tales from the files of a working ‘foodie.’ Wendy’s creative input teamed with talented Scots photographer Alan Donaldson’s full colour food shots will appeal to all who like to see the ‘one made earlier’ before trying out new recipes. Others may be surprised at how interesting the life of a ‘scone maker’ can be! Cover price £7 available via website. (P&P £1.50)

Enquiries		Scottish Field				Comments
		Craigcrook Castle Craigcrook Road Edinburgh,  EH4 3PE Tel: 0131 312 4550				Scotland's quality lifestyle magazine, now over a century old yet as contemporary as ever, with articles reflecting town and country; people and places; gourmet food and wine.

Enquiries		Soil Association Scotland				Comments
		Tower Mains 18 Liberton Brae Edinburgh,   EH16 6AE Tel: 0131 666 2474				Soil Association Scotland campaigns for locally produced, GM-free, organic food to be available and affordable throughout Scotland. We provide an organic food and farming information service for members, schools and the general public.

Enquiries		Catering in Scotland				Comments
		45 Queen Street Edinburgh,  EH2 3NH Tel: 0131 220 3852				An excellent trade publication for Scottish catering, tourism and hospitality markets , the magazine is ideally placed to keep abreast of the latest news and views. Teamed up with chartered accountants, nutrition specialists, property consultants and, on occasion, MSPs, it brings you the best advice and opinion available. In an effort to recognise and reward the high degrees of creativity, excellence and innovation in Scotland 's catering, hospitality and tourism industries, CIS asks YOU annually for entries and nominations for the CIS Excellence Awards. Aimed at recognising and rewarding the highest standards in the Scottish catering, hospitality and tourism industries, the CIS Awards showcase and celebrate the best that Scotland has to offer every May. Look out for entry forms each new year and consider your nominations in good time. Open to all types of established and emerging businesses and talent, from chefs and contract caterers to hotels and restaurants. and tourism organisations, there is a category to suit you or your company.

Enquiries		Scottish Food & Drink Fortnight				Comments
		Scotland Food & Drink 18 Logie Mill, Logie Green Road Edinburgh,  EH7 4HS Tel: 0131 524 8644				Scottish Food & Drink Fortnight is an annual September celebration of Scottish produce that has been backed by some of the country’s leading culinary names. Individuals and organisations support the event along with significant Government backing. Food columnist and cookery expert Lady Claire Macdonald is Patron and Wendy Barrie a supporter for the two week long event.

Enquiries		Royal Highland Show				Comments
		Royal Highland Centre Ingliston Edinburgh Edinburgh,  EH28 8NF Tel: 0131 335 6200				The 'Highland' is the pinnacle of the Scottish showing year, but its appeal stretches well beyond Scotland’s borders to make it not only one of the UK’s premier agricultural shows but also a great day out for all the family, featuring many other activities including food, crafts & flowers. One of the most popular locations at the show - and the one with the greatest footfall - is the Food and Drink at the Royal Highland indoor exhibition. This year there are more exhibitors than ever to tempt you. Visit the Food and Drink Cookery Theatre to see Scotland's cooks and chefs in action with our wonderful produce. A full timetable of Shows daily with lots to taste in the complimentary 100 seat theatre, See you there! www.royalhighlandshow.org

Enquiries		Healthy Living Award				Comments
		Consumer Focus Scotland Royal Exchange House 100 Queen Street Glasgow,  G1 3DN Tel: 0141 226 5261				The healthyliving award is the sign of healthier food when eating out in Scotland, whether that be in your workplace canteen, local sandwich shop, café or restaurant. This exciting award rewards good practice and highlights businesses that are making it easer for their customers to eat healthily when eating out.

Enquiries		Gardening Scotland				Comments
		Rural Projects 2 Ingliston Gardens Ingliston Newbridge Edinburgh,  EH28 8NB Tel: 0131 333 0969				GARDENING Scotland is the national gardening and outdoor living show and it is the most colourful and fragrant event of the year. It is also a celebration of food and flowers with a big emphasis on healthy eating and grow-your-own produce. Alongside hundreds of thousands of blooms in the Dobbies Floral Hall, there is an international Food Fayre selling craft produce from Scottish specialists as well as delicacies from all around the world. Outdoors, in the Big Back Garden, there are inspirational barbecue demonstrations and the Big Cooking Bus for kids, while in the Gardening Scotland show kitchen Wendy Barrie will be using seasonal produce to cook up mouth-watering recipes specially created for the Show. Wendy will be sharing the kitchen with chefs from some of Scotland’s diplomatic consulates, who will each be demonstrating some of the specialities of their home cuisine. For food and flower lovers, Gardening Scotland is an event not to be missed. Call the ticket hotline on 0131 333 0965 or visit www.gardeningscotland.com.

Enquiries		Love Food Hate Waste				Comments
		Wallace House 17-21 Maxwell Place Stirling,  FK8 1JU Tel: 01786 468248				A very useful website for all you food lovers who hate waste with great tips on saving our environment and our pennies. I am delighted to have been invited to contribute many of the recipes on this website so enjoy and help create our healthier, cleaner Scotland.

Enquiries		Slow Food				Comments
		International,   Tel:				‘Cometh the hour cometh the man’ could well be said of Carlo Petrini who started the Slow Food movement in the ‘80s as a rallying call to all food loving Italians who were concerned at the relentless march of the ‘fast food’ culture. Not only did he articulate the misgivings of his own countrymen but encouraged like minded people around the world to come together in local convivia. Sometime in the ’90s I was invited by a friend to a charity dinner to mark Slow’s arrival in Edinburgh. Since then, hundreds of youngsters have attended my Slow Food workshops to learn about the food we eat. In many places chefs have linked with a local school, to encourage taste education for youngsters. Slow Food is a movement supporting biodiversity and small producers world wide. It values ecological production of high quality food with primary producers receiving just rewards for their dedication and hard labour. Many will use skills passed down through generations and may be safeguarding rare breeds or old varieties, above or below ground. The core values of the movement are Good, Clean and Fair.