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The Scottish vineyard making its own wine

The Scottish vineyard making its own wine

Pioneering Scottish viticulturist Christopher Trotter on course for grape harvest

13 Dec 2011

In the spring of 2011, Christopher Trotter planted a 2.4-hectare vineyard on his Upper Largo estate on the southern coast of Fife. Facing his first winter as a pioneering Scottish viticulturist, Trotter, who's Fife’s official ‘Food Ambassador’, isn’t at…

From field to fork - The meat producers of Fife, Scotland

From field to fork - The meat producers of Fife, Scotland

For those who love their meat, but like to know where it comes from

10 May 2010

For at least a decade now, Fife farmers have been finding a way to market that has avoided the high-volume supermarket route and reduced the food miles between field and fork. Typical of this movement are small-scale, family farmers such as Jim and…

Why Scottish oats and bread are a cut above

Why Scottish oats and bread are a cut above

The essential ingredient in porridge, crowdie, skirlie and haggis

10 May 2010

Oats thrive in a cold, damp climate and so it comes as no surprise that they have long been a staple food in Fife, and Scotland in general. Indeed oats, inseparably entwined with Scotland’s culinary heritage, were, and still are, held in high esteem.

Eat your way along the Fife Coastal Path

Eat your way along the Fife Coastal Path

A guide to one of Scotland's great food areas by local chef Christopher Trotter

10 May 2010

The 105-mile Fife Coastal Path starts at the Burgh of Culross and winds its way along beach, rough paths, villages and towns to the Tay Bridge in the north. The walk is best completed in sections, and it’s always worth leaving time for some food…

Fife’s fishing industry is ready to take the next step towards sustainability

Fife’s fishing industry is ready to take the next step towards sustainability

Ronald Kerr talks to Pittenweem fishermen’s spokesman Billy Hughes

10 May 2010

The fortunes of Fife’s fishing industry may fluctuate like the spring tides, but the sea continues to exert a compelling hold on men such as Billy Hughes. Having entered the industry as an apprentice fish auctioneer in the 1960s, the secretary of…

How Anster cheese become one of the region’s headline food acts

How Anster cheese become one of the Fife’s headline food acts

One of Scotland's artisan cheeses

10 May 2010

‘Right from the start, cheese seemed an obvious option. There was nobody else in Fife making cheese from their own milk on the farm; there seemed to be public demand for, and interest in, locally produced food; and last, but not least, we love…

The long and colourful history of ice-cream in Fife

The long and colourful history of ice-cream in Fife

Ice-cream makers in Scotland

10 May 2010

Given that it’s not the warmest country in the world, Scotland has a surprising number of excellent ice-cream producers. This trend was established as early as the 1880s, when Italians began traveling to Scotland for work to escape poverty at home.

Chef choices: Key chefs pay tribute to the food of Fife

Chefs' choices: Key chefs pay tribute to the food of Fife

Praise for Anster cheese, Falkland beef and locally-grown fruit and veg

10 May 2010

Geoffrey Smeddle on Anster Cheese Fife is hugely fortunate to have its own landmark cheese production farm, the St Andrews Farmhouse Cheese Company, home of Anster cheese. Ever since first tasting this traditional, unpasteurised cheese, we have always…

Orchards of Fife provide a bounty of fruit

Orchards of Fife provide a bounty of fruit

Pear, plum and apple among fruit grown in Fife, Scotland

10 May 2010

There is a very rare pear tree in Newburgh, on the banks of the Tay estuary. Called the Lindores pear, it’s rooted in the twelfth-century world of Tironensian monks who founded Lindores Abbey just beside the town. The monks were responsible for the…

The farm shops of Fife

The farm shops of Fife

Fife boasts more farm shops than anywhere else in Scotland

10 May 2010

‘People like to see where their food is produced,’ says Duncan Stewart, manager of Falkland’s Pillars of Hercules farm. ‘Here you can see things growing in the fields and put a face to the person who’s producing the food, which means a lot more than…

Reinvigorating Fife's rich distilling heritage

Reinvigorating Fife's rich distilling heritage

The whisky produced in Fife, Scotland

10 May 2010

Daftmill Distillery in the Howe of Fife may be one of Scotland’s newest and smallest malt whisky distilleries, but it also revives a tradition of whisky making that was once a mainstay of many Fife communities. The Cuthbert family has been growing…

The Tay Salmon Fishery

The Tay Salmon Fishery

An extract from Tay Salmon – Net Fishing Memories

10 May 2010

Net fishing on the Tay started several hundred years ago and, by the mid 1700s, had become a huge business, with exports to several countries. Trade blossomed further when ice (stored in ice houses) was used to preserve the fish while in transit…

The Fife Diet - An 'experiment’ in local eating

The Fife Diet - An experiment in local eating

Organisation has developed into an officially funded body with full-time employees

10 May 2010

When Mike and Karen Small initiated their ‘experiment’ in local eating in 2007, it attracted lots of media attention. As Mike says, ‘it’s a mad world we live in when an idea such as eating food from near where you come from is seen as groundbreaking and…

Real ale in Scotland

Pubs serving real ale in Fife

David Pollock sups his way along an unofficial real ale trail

10 May 2010

Although Fife doesn’t enjoy the same brewing tradition of similar rural areas in England, there is a real ale community to be found. Most widely recognised around the county as the hub of this scene is the Harbour Bar on the High Street, Kirkcaldy…

Venison farming in Fife

Venison farming in Fife

The Scottish deer farm offering sustainable, humane agriculture

10 May 2010

Auchtermuchty can be hard to pronounce without a bit of practice, though it’s famous enough as the home town of accordionist Sir Jimmy Shand, popstars the Proclaimers and, to anyone tuned into inspiring Scottish food stories, John and Nichola Fletcher…

Educating the next generation of farmers

Educating the next generation of farmers

The Fife college teaching organic and free-range agriculture

10 May 2010

In the fertile surrounds of Cupar Muir, just south of Cupar, is a small, organic farm with a difference. College Farm’s main function is to train students from Fife’s Elmwood College, teaching organic and free-range animal husbandry and agriculture to…

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