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A food-lovers journey along the River Tweed

A food-lovers journey along the River Tweed

Borders-based writer Sandy Neil on the food of south-east Scotland

10 May 2011

For 100 miles from source to sea, the River Tweed drains the Borders’ 18,000 square miles of landmass, collecting waters from the upland valleys of the Ettrick, Yarrow and Teviot, meandering across the fertile fields of The Merse flood plain, and…

Border bannocks - The Scottish flatbread

Border bannocks - The Scottish flatbread

The bannock wasn’t always just a tea-time treat

10 May 2011

From a flatbread that was an everyday staple, the traditional Border bannock changed its character over the years. The rich cakes that bear the name ‘bannock’ owe little to their ancestry but their round shape. When Burns talked of southern Scotland…

Food and drink highlights of the Scottish Borders

Food and drink highlights of the Scottish Borders

The best producers, hotels, cafes and farmers' markets

10 May 2011

Cocoa Black. By her own admission, Ruth Hinks has the best job in the world. ‘I get to mess about with chocolate all day,’ she says. ‘Can you think of anything better?’ Her enthusiasm comes in handy at her Chocolate and Pastry School in Peebles. Behind…

Discover the Borders landscape and the food it offers

Discover the Scottish Borders landscape and food

Travel by foot or two wheels for the best food in south-east Scotland

10 May 2011

Geology is the key to under-standing the diverse terrain and the food it produces, so let’s begin our adventure with the Borders’ story in stone. The Borders rose from the Iapetus Ocean floor 4.5 million years ago as the American and European tectonic…

The innovative approaches to traditional farms in The Scottish Borders

Innovative approaches on traditional farms in the Scottish Borders

The new ideas lighting up the local food scene in south-east Scotland

10 May 2011

The old woods and hedges of Peelham Farm shelter fields that have been brought back to life. After decades of exploitation under an earlier owner’s intensive arable regime, Denise and Chris Walton, and their business partner Amanda Cayley have invested…

The Borders’ culinary heritage is well documented

The Borders’ culinary heritage is well documented

The early Scottish cookbooks

10 May 2011

The Scottish Borders may not have been the only cradle of the Scot’s cuisine but they did play a role in establishing the canon of Scots cookery. Elizabeth Cleland’s New and Easy Method of Cookery of 1755 was one of the first cookery books published…

How the sheep and lamb from the Scottish Borders earned its reputation

How the sheep and lamb from the Scottish Borders earned its reputation

Some of the finest meat available in Scotland

10 May 2011

Sheep have been grazing on Border hills since at least the 12th century, yielding wool, milk and meat – mostly eaten as braxy when the animal died by disease, old age or accident. While in the Highlands sheep were farmed for subsistence, in the Lowlands…

How the woman behind Stichill Jerseys maintains high food standards

How the woman behind Stichill Jerseys maintains high food standards

Brenda Leddy on cows, cheese and clotted cream

10 May 2011

It takes quite a woman to take one Jersey cow and make it into an award-winning transatlantic enterprise, but then Kelso’s Brenda Leddy, of Stichill Jerseys, is not just any woman. A recent runner-up in BBC Radio 4’s Food and Farming Awards, those…

How Eyemouth is clinging to centuries of fishing heritage

How Eyemouth is clinging to centuries of fishing heritage

The Scottish fishing town on the North Sea coast

10 May 2011

There’s a part of the Borders that’s seafaring, with a direct link to the fish of the North Sea. Catches from Eyemouth’s last dozen boats are packed in ice or landed live on the harbour by 6am, and on the fishmonger’s counter by opening time at 9am in…

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