Food and Drink
Plaudits for precision potato predictor
FARMERS could produce more salad and seed potatoes thanks to a new way to predict the size of their crop while it’s still buried in the soil. The “Tuberzone” project used the global positioning system (GPS), satellite images, and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to monitor potato plants as they grew. It predicted the size of…
Read MoreTurning beer byproducts into chairs
GRAINS left over from beer brewing and gin distilling are being turned into tables and chairs for Dundee Science Centre. Aymeric Renoud named his furniture making business after “draff”, the wet grains left behind when beer is made. Renoud adds a binder to draff from 71 Brewing in Dundee and botanicals used to make gin…
Read MoreEdinburgh’s first contactless open-air market
STOCKBRIDGE will host Edinburgh’s first contactless open-air market, with stalls including Bross Bagels, Edinburgh Gin and Luca’s ice cream. The Neighbourgood Market is due to open at The Grange Club on Portgower Place on 15 July. One-way routes and designated circular seating zones for small groups will be put in place. Partnerships have been agreed…
Read MoreHighland Game invests £150,000 to combat covid-19
BRITAIN’S biggest venison supplier has pumped £150,000 into its business so it can keep feeding the nation during the coronavirus pandemic. Dundee-based Highland Game has also created 15 jobs to take its headcount to more than 80. The company needs the extra workers to implement its socially-distanced shift patterns, with fewer members of staff able…
Read MoreScotland is ‘king’ of sustainable prawns
A FARM in Stirlingshire that rears king prawns is selling its crustacean direct to the public for the first time. Balfron-based Great British Prawns, which opened last year, will harvest its warm water Litopenaeus vannamei each week and delivery them via courier to most parts of the UK – but not the Highlands and islands…
Read More‘Bad Girl’ serves up good news as bakery reopens
BAD Girl Bakery in Muir of Ord has turned its café into a shop – and is even giving away some of its baking secrets. The bakery, which opened in 2017, is selling the ingredients for some of its signature dishes, so customers can try their hand at baking at home. Baking equipment is also…
Read MoreMimi’s puts the ‘tea’ in Edinburgh Gin’s ‘G&T’
TWO of Edinburgh’s best-known food and drink brands have teamed up to offer a “G&T” with a difference. For four weekends, Mimi’s Bakehouse and Edinburgh Gin are selling an “Afternoon G&Tea” package to customers in Edinburgh and Glasgow. Each set contains six mini traybakes, two mini elderflower cupcakes and two freshly-baked plain scones with Rodda’s…
Read MoreLorne sausage crisps go global
SCOTLAND’S humble square sausage is poised to gain new fans around the world after a deal was signed to sell Lorne-flavoured crisps over the internet. Mackie’s immortalised the Lorne sausage in a limited-edition crisp flavour that went on sale in Scotmid’s shops earlier this month. Now, a fresh deal with online retailer British Corner Shop…
Read MoreEwing: Kids ‘don’t know chips come from potatoes’
THE Scottish Government’s rural economy secretary has praised farmers for keeping the nation fed during lockdown – but has expressed his fear that children don’t know that chips come from potatoes. Fergus Ewing, who represents Inverness and Nairn in the Scottish Parliament, made the comments to Alan Laidlaw, chief executive of the Royal Highland &…
Read MoreWhisky barrel-aged beers turned into cocktails
BARTENDER Dillon Barrie has created eight cocktails using four of The Clan Brewing Co’s craft beers that have been aged in single malt whisky casks. Barrie, who set up cocktail events and hospitality consultancy firm Raise The Bar Glasgow in 2018, has posted his recipes for the cocktails on his social media channels and those…
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