Scottish cuisine

[Nathan]

When people discuss Scottish food today, they mostly mention haggis, oatmeal/porridge, meat pies, neeps and tatties, Irn Bru, deep fried Mars bars and Indian curry...

Although we certainly knew these foods (maybe not the deep fried Mars Bars) and even enjoyed our own version of "Iron Brew" bottled by McKinley's pop factory...

Growing up, the foods most commonly thought of as Scottish around Cape Breton were: bannock, scones, oat cakes, white pudding (marag gheal) and black pudding (marag dubh).

I was surprised when I travelled to Central and Western Canada to find that bannock was mainly associated with Aboriginal Canadians and not Scots.

Of course, most North Atlantic sea food is the same on both sides of the ocean so that was thought of as local food, but many of the recipes for its preparation probably came from Scotland, too.

Anyway, I found this old footage of a Cape Breton cooking show on YouTube that's profiling some Scottish dishes. Food and culture go hand in hand. Take a step back in time a few decades.

This show is interesting for the cuisine but also because the ladies throw Gaelic into their English seemlessly as they share the recipes.

Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u53mn...ihVRKA&index=9

Part2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUWcf...ihVRKA&index=8

Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4QMS8VwM04