Posts by Kenny Smith
Try Chicken Skewers with Bramley Apple Salad
Meat and fruit are a delicious food pairing, as we’re demonstrating with our daily recipes this week. With British fruit in season, and apples and pears dropping from the trees, it seems like the right time to celebrateand use them. Courtesy of British Apples and Pears, here’s a delicious recipe for chicken skewers. Click HERE…
Read MoreA hugely revamped menu from the Pizza Punks
A Glasgow pizzeria has been getting creative behind the scenes to present a new menu, from small plates and sides to pizza and pasta, plus desserts offerings. Pizza Punks is introducing a larger selection of small plates and sides, the new menu includes Mixed Marinated Olives and Sweet Drop Peppers, Confit Garlic and Rosemary Sourdough…
Read MoreThe Glencairn Glass invites crime writers to enter short story comp
Are you an author with a murderous imagination, a crime that needs capturing or a deadly deed to document? Well here’s your chance … The Glencairn Glass – the world’s favourite whisky glass – and sponsor of the McIlvanney and Bloody Scotland Debut crime-writing prizes, is looking for crime short stories, launching the competition with…
Read MoreThe Stillman is a novel packed with dark humour
The Stillman is Tom McCulloch’s first novel and the characterisation of protagonist Jim Drever surely draws on the author’s upbringing in the Highlands. We’re in 2010, the worst winter in years, and Jim, stillman at a Highland distillery, has just turned 50. His obsessions are his comfortingly predictable job, and the movies, full of fictional…
Read MoreGlenfiddich releases 15 rare bottles of 1973 whisky
Glenfiddich have made their rare whisky portfolio available to everyone to buy for the first time. Glenfiddich has released 15 bottles of Glenfiddich 1973, a rare 46-year-old whisky finished on Armagnac Cask. Each is worth ÂŁ13034.70/$18,000 on a new platform called BlockBar, which is a state of the art direct-to-consumer luxury spirits platform. Glenfiddich has…
Read MoreLes Misérables comes to Glasgow this Christmas
Glasgow’s Theatre Royal is preparing to host Cameron Mackintosh’s acclaimed production of Les MisĂ©rables this Christmas. Running from Tuesday 23 November until Friday 31 December, the Boublil and Schönberg musical Les MisĂ©rables visits Glasgow on what will be the first leg of the show’s highly anticipated UK tour. Les MisĂ©rables will star Dean Chisnall as…
Read MoreBoswell Book Festival returns online this month
Following the success of this year’s Boswell Book Festival which was a virtual event in June, the event will be once more available online from 29-31 October. Named in honour of Ayrshire’s James Boswell, the inventor of modern biography, the festival is the world’s only festival dedicated to biography and memoir, and moved online this…
Read MoreShipyard Gin receives its own launch
A gin that celebrates Inverclyde’s shipbuilding past has been launched in Gourock. Shipyard Gin is the brainchild of Greenock-born Andy Samuel (37), whose grandfather John Samuel worked in the shipyards in the 1930s and 40s as a plater. This was a skilled job that involved laying and riveting plates of steel to form the ship’s…
Read MoreTry these tasty Brambley Burgers with Mustard Mayo
As the leaves on the trees turn from green to yellow and brown, it means that autumn is here. And, of course, it means that British fruit is coming into season, with apples and pears ready to drop from the trees. Over the next few days, courtesy of British Apples and Pears, we’re going to…
Read MoreSingers raised their voices as music festival returned
St Andrews Voices Festival celebrated a joyous return, with afive-day programme that welcomed singers from across the country, as well as internationally, to raise their voices together once again. The 2021 edition of Scotland’s singing festival closed on Sunday after a weekend of music highlights, including workshops, choral services and performances from world-class musicians and…
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