Dedication

For Matilda and Harris, with love The world’s your oyster

Thank you to Jamie Logan and Mike Plews for your wonderful professional food photos; you’ll go far, a brilliant team! And thanks to ‘Life Story’, the Scandinavian design-led store in Edinburgh, for lending us their beautiful tableware for the shoot (www.lifestoryshop.com).

Thanks to the following islanders (and those with strong island connections) who, along with the wonderful people mentioned in the book, helped me find the very best cooks and ingredients; they have also often fed me delicious island fare: Christine Bryden, Maggie Darling, Ronnie Eunson, John Gordon, Emma and Ron Goudie, Fielen and Ian Gray, Isabel and Martin Johnson, Bea and Donnie MacDonald, Shona MacIntyre, Iain MacLeod, Sally Swinbanks, Hamish Taylor, Mary and Martin Whitmore.