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Food and Drink
Restaurant Review: La P’tite Folie, 61 Frederick Street and 9 Randolph Place
THERE is certainly no shortage of French eateries in Edinburgh.
Recipes: Arriba chocolate mousse, Confit of Scottish salmon, beetroot jelly and salad.
Confit of Scottish salmon, beetroot jelly and salad
Food News: Spice up your romantic dinner
MYA, in Commercial Street, is offering a Valentine’s Day menu on a shoestring.
Diners can enjoy two courses for just £15.90, or three for only £19.90, this Friday.
Stephen Jardine: Let’s take care to serve our sector
WE have come a long way. In a generation, Scotland’s food and drink has moved from a national embarrassment to an international success story.
Interview, Iain Burnett, gourmet chocolatier
SALMON, whisky, venison, Aberdeen Angus beef, shortbread ... Irn Bru. Scotland is famous for its culinary excellence.
Restaurant reviews
Restaurant review: Duck’s at Kilspindie House, Main Street, Aberlady
SEVEN years ago, the Edinburgh institution known as Duck’s at Le Marché Noir began the process of decamping to the high street of the East Lothian village of Aberlady and morphing into Duck’s at Kilspindie House.
Restaurant review: Mithas, Dock Place, Edinburgh
SLOTH. That’s my only excuse for taking so long to visit this Indian restaurant – which opened last summer.
When it’s chilly outside, and you live at the other end of the capital, it can feel as if you have to cross two time zones to get to the bottom of Leith.
Restaurant review: Caffe e Cucina, Bruntsfield
THE exterior of the new Caffe e Cucina is the equivalent of a plain biscotto. That’s in comparison to this Morningside corner’s former incarnation – the luscious Loopy Lorna’s, which closed down four months ago and was a Battenburg cake of a cafe, with liquorice, vanilla and strawberry livery, plus a jolly giant teapot sign hanging above the doorway.
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Restaurant review: The Blue Marlin, Camperdown Street, Dundee
DUNDEE, long the butt of jokes about being twinned with Beirut, is changing.
Restaurant review: Knockinaam Lodge, Portpatrick
KNOCKINAAM Lodge keeps winning gongs for being one of Scotland’s most romantic hotels, and even through the hurricane-force winds that accompanied our visit you can see the judges’ point.
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Wine
Wine: ‘France is very protective over the way rosé is made’
WITH Valentine’s Day just over a week away, it is time to look at some of the pink wines we traditionally associate with 14 February. Oddly enough, few in France – home to a third of the world’s rosé – recognise that association; for them, rosé is for summer, not February.
Wine: ‘Italy’s aromatic fiano wine is now a success story, appearing on many mainstream wine lists’
JUST as simple labelling and fruit-forward flavours assisted the rise of New World wines in the 1990s, so imaginative experimentation with unfamiliar regions or grapes in Europe could help the pendulum swing back.
Wine: ‘A favourite Chinese tipple is whisky with cold, sweet green tea on the rocks’
UK economic recovery is believed to depend on our success in increasing sales around the world, so Scotch whisky – with exports topping £3 billion and rising – could prove a useful case study.
Recipes
Tom Kitchin: Mussels are tastiest just before they spawn
AS THE end of winter approaches, many of us are still seeking out healthy, hearty meal options that satisfy both appetites and budgets. Mussels are often seen as the poor man’s shellfish, but not only are they affordable and abundant, they’re also hugely versatile and incredibly tasty when cooked freshly and simply.
Tom Kitchin: ‘Get baking, get wrapped up and get out there’
LOOKING out the window in late January, it’s hard to find the energy to do anything more than snuggle under the duvet, put on another DVD, make yourself a cup of tea or settle down with the paper.
Tom Kitchin: ‘By adding sugar or honey, the whisky becomes sweet and infuses the pudding with beautiful flavours’
AFTER a few weeks of recovering from Christmas and Hogmanay, drinking very little, eating plenty of healthy foods and having a few quiet weekends in, Burns Night always comes at just the right time.
Recipes: Pinhead oatmeal stuffing | Apple crumble with oatmeal fudge crumble | Herb and walnut oatmeal crust on a rack of lamb
FROM the celebratory food of last Saturday, this week we are back to basics. Over the centuries in Scotland battles have been fought and won on oatmeal.
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