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 ->  HN> Oh sure, defend them and their boiled beef!

I saw a food article that's on topic here....

Top chef says Scotland's food is 'dire'

AA Chef's Chef of the Year Award goes to Andrew Fairlie. Judges
described Mr Fairlie's signature dishes - which include smoking lobster
over old whisky barrels for up to 12 hours - as "masterpieces in
culinary creation".

When a Scottish chef was yesterday crowned the best in the UK,
restaurateurs across the country must have thought they at last had a
hero to defend the nation's culinary reputation from its many
detractors. But Andrew instead joined the critics and condemned the food
on offer at most of Scotland's restaurants as "pretty dire".

The comments by Mr Fairlie - whose restaurant at the Gleneagles Hotel is
Scotland's only establishment with two Michelin stars - come in the wake
of a vitriolic attack on dining north of the Border by AA Gill, arguably
the UK's best-known food critic.

Edinburgh-born Gill described Scotland as "unquestionably the worst
country in Europe to eat out in - or the worst country that didn't once
have a communist dictator".

"Scots die younger not just because of the cholesterol, but, in the end,
because they can't face another dinner."

Don Matheson, owner of the Boath House Hotel, near Nairn, responded: "We
get Americans almost every day saying they've really been taken aback by
how good the food has been."

Now was that last paragraph meant to promote Scottish food or was it a shot
at American taste buds? [G]



Cheers

Jim, in Yellowknife




... No wonder most of the Irish and Scots left their countries.
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