Foreword

When I think of home, it’s the food that springs to mind and always transports me back there. Of course, across the world people associate Scotland with haggis – our most well-known dish – but there’s so much more to Scotland than that. There’s the comfort of holding a warm Scotch pie in your hand on a blustery afternoon while watching a football match; the nostalgia of a hot plate of stovies or a homemade shepherd’s pie; a spicy, soul-warming dram of whisky in front of the fire (perhaps my own Sassenach!); or the simple pleasure of haggis, neeps and tatties, our unofficial national dish. On every page of this book, I was transported back to Scotland.