Food

Best of 2011: Scottish food producers

The brewers, smokehouses, bakers and cheesemakers on the rise

20 Jan 2012

2011 wasn’t a fun year for small business but food and drink in Scotland continued to make advances with impressive new products, new producers, new markets, growing food festivals, and an increased awareness of the value and importance of local food…

A guide to the best cheese shops in Edinburgh

The finest purveyors of Strathdon Blue, Dunlop Cheddar and many more Scottish cheeses

16 Feb 2011

In the popular parlour game of ‘if you had to give something up for life, what would it be?’ (Strictly Come Dancing or X Factor, partner or friends, stilettos or trainers), many have foundered over the choice between cheese or orgasms. You think it’s an…

Food For Thought: Jonathan Wilkes

22 May 2008

My eating routine when I’m working is shocking. When I’m on tour, I grab what I can when I can. For breakfast I’ll have a bacon sandwich, followed by a club sandwich for lunch, so it’s bread after bread after bread. As much as I love my bread there’s…

Eat, drink and be merry: Christmas food

13 Nov 2008

‘Christmas dinner on a budget is easy, and you don’t have to end up with a can of Spam and a tub of out-of-date potato salad, either. It should be a special meal; it should feel special, and the secret to that is really simple – get a table set…

Chop Chop dumplings set for supermarket sales

25 Feb 2008

Edinburgh restaurateur Roy King, who runs Chop Chop, has announced that the dumplings for which they are famous are now being produced for sale in Sainsbury's. He insisted on maintaining his policy of 'fresh ingredients only and no pre-cooking…

Antony Worrall Thompson says sorry for shoplifting

TV Gossip

9 Jan 2012

Antony Worrall Thompson has apologised following his arrest for shoplifting. The 'Ready Steady Cook' star - who was given a formal caution by police for stealing cheese and wine on five separate occasions in 16 days from a Tesco store in Henley…

Anne Hathaway's dietary difficulties

Celebrity Gossip

27 Aug 2011

Anne Hathaway had "problems" being a vegetarian in London. The 28-year-old actress - who is renowned for her slim physique - admits it hasn't always been easy working in the UK because of her meat-free dietary requirements, but has found the country…

Foodies Festival at 2011 Edinburgh Fringe

3-day food and drink in Holrood Park runs 12 to 14 Aug

10 Aug 2011

For many years, the missing Edinburgh food festival was a void waiting to be filled. After all, it was festival season in August and lots of food was being eaten. And, of course, everywhere else in the country was running food festivals. Five years ago…

Eva Mendes doesn't cook

Celebrity Gossip

5 Jun 2011

Eva Mendes never makes her own meals. The 37-year-old actress - who has been in a relationship with George Augusto for nine years - is hopeless in the kitchen so relies on restaurant food and home deliveries to ensure she gets the nourishment she…

Robert Pattinson too busy to shop

Celebrity Gossip

26 Mar 2011

Robert Pattinson doesn't have time to buy food. The 24-year-old star has little free time because he is in such high demand and he admits he hasn't been to a supermarket for a while. Asked if he still does his own grocery shopping, he said: "I…

Food, with Eivind Aarset, to perform as part of Dialogues festival

The jazz-electronica duo team up with the Norwegian guitarist for an intimate gig at Voodoo Rooms

3 Mar 2011

Jazz experimentalists Food have carved a niche over the past few years in forging ahead with wide-ranging collaborations. The core duo of saxophonist Iain Bellamy and percussionist Thomas Strønen are great practitioners of improvisation, and bring…

Love Bites

A show about food, love, and sex blurs the lines between reality and fantasy

9 Aug 2010

As paranoia and dependency take over their relationship, an obsession with eating grows and sex, love and food become interchangeable. Claire and Stephen prove that, while the way to a man’s heart may well be through his stomach, the journey can be…

Kevin Bridges, Derrick May and Green Velvet on Rock Ness 2010 bill

10 Jun 2010

Rock Ness has more to offer than just great DJs and lashings of live music, as Henry Northmore finds out

How to holiday in Scotland: Scottish Travel A-Z

9 Jun 2010

We’re here to persuade you that you don’t need foreign beaches or backpacking tours to make the most of the summer. There’s a world of wonder right on your doorstep, with plenty of Scottish excursions to keep you entertained until autumn. Anna Millar…

Food - Quiet Inlet

21 Apr 2010

(ECM Records) Saxophonist Iain Ballamy’s Food has taken various forms over the years, but this latest edition is a duo with the band’s co-founder, Norwegian percussionist Thomas Strønen, familiar in these parts from collaborations with Phil Bancroft…

Humcrush unites members of Food and Supersilent for Edinburgh Dialogues gig

31 Mar 2010

Part of the Dialogues festival of electronic music, Humcrush make a much-anticipated return to Edinburgh after their last visit to the Bongo Club in 2006. The Norwegian duo consisting of percussionist Thomas Strønen and keyboard player Ståle Storløkken…

Auntie Midgie's Guide To: Scottish Cuisine

10 Sep 2009

What’s best? Things like Scotch beef, Scotch lamb and Scottish salmon are real local delicacies and guaranteed to be of superior taste, protected as they are by strict quality guidelines. And many seaside towns offer locally caught fish that is second…

Bound by the Apron Strings

Well-kent Scottish faces wax nostalgic about their favourite childhood foods in a new book

6 Aug 2009

Sue Lawrence clearly loves the warm waft of nostalgia emerging from the kitchen door. In interviewing over 70 prominent Scots including Gordon Brown, Andy Murray and Gordon Ramsay for her new book she has given them a topic few would be reticent about…

Foodies Festival hits second year

25 Jun 2009

Following its inaugural success last year, the Foodies Festival will return to Edinburgh this summer for a foodie extravaganza in and around Holyrood. Following the pattern of last year’s line-up, this year’s programme boasts demonstrations from…

Café Bayan - Falling into steppe

14 May 2009

Entering Café Bayan, your eye is drawn to an enormous, mauve-toned mural depicting Scottish and Russian luminaries. In the Scots corner, Burns; in the Russian corner, Pushkin and Tchaikovsky; and, floating incongruously between the two, a tiny depiction…

List Eating & Drinking Guide 2009 launched

14 May 2009

The launch event for the 16th annual List Eating & Drinking Guide celebrated the year’s finest dining experiences on offer in Edinburgh and Glasgow. The event, at Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts, saw four excellent restaurants receive Eating…

Awards herald publication of The List Eating & Drinking Guide 2009

29 Apr 2009

As The List’s annual Eating & Drinking guide hits the shelves, we reveal our choices for the best of the bunch.

Eating out trends: What’s cooking?

16 Apr 2009

Right now we’re busy writing up the late entries, dotting ‘i’s and crossing ‘t’s to get this year’s Eating & Drinking Guide finished. A year ago we revealed over 100 new entries and everyone took it as a sign of a buoyant scene. This year we have over…

Side Dishes - Food News

5 Mar 2009

● The List has teamed up again with Taste of Edinburgh, the high-profile food festival at the end of May, to find out readers’ current favourite places to eat out. Vote online for your favourite restaurant in either Edinburgh or Glasgow and you’ll earn…

Food: Currying flavour

1 Dec 2008

When the late foreign secretary Robin Cook called the chicken tikka masala ‘Britain’s true national dish’, it was the moment the curry arrived. Until then seen as an ethnic food which had been brought over by Indian immigrants during the 1960s, its…