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Crail Food Festival 2017
June 19, 2017
East Neuk / Festival
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Foot Stompin’ Supper
June 1, 2017
Festival / Food
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Children’s Activities at Crail Food Festival 2017
May 20, 2017
Festival / Participants
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Q&A with Praveen Kumar from Tabla Restaurant in Perth
June 8, 2016
Festival
Q&A with Praveen Kumar from Tabla Restaurant in Perth Praveen and his wife have a passion for good and simple food. They were both born and brought up in rural villages in India, where every meal of the day is freshly made using ingredients grown in local fields. In their restaurant they do the same. Even today all spices used in Tabla…
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MEET THE CHEFS – Q&A with Christopher Trotter, Fife Food Ambassador
May 23, 2016
Festival / Food
Q&A with Christopher Trotter, Fife Food Ambassador Christopher Trotter is a professional chef and food writer and who has over the years run businesses from hotels and restaurant to Scotland’s Larder a unique food destination celebrating Scottish food with a shop restaurant and education element. Christopher has developed a unique team building strategy using food…
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Goat’s Cheese Mousse recipe by Adam Newth of The Tayberry Restaurant
May 23, 2016
Food
Goat’s Cheese Mousse, Truffled Curd and Beetroot Cannelloni, Avocado Puree, Heirloom Beetroot & Hazelnut Salad by Adam Newth of The Tayberry Restaurant Mousse in Crisp Filo Tube 50 g milk 115g cream 90g goats cheese 1 leaf gelatine (soaked) 140g natural yogurt 4 sheets of filo de brick (trimmed into squares) Melted butter for greasing Blend…
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MEET THE CHEFS – Q&A with Adam Newth from The Tayberry Restaurant in Broughty Ferry
May 18, 2016
Festival / Participants
Q&A with Adam Newth from The Tayberry Restaurant in Broughty Ferry Inspired by his love of food and his desire to raise Tayside’s profile on the culinary map, Chef Proprietor, Adam Newth opened The Tayberry Restaurant in November 2015. Situated in a beautiful coastal setting, overlooking the Mouth O’ The Tay in Broughty Ferry, Dundee….
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Q&A with Jenny Thomson from Courses For Cooks
May 17, 2016
Festival
Jenny Thomson from Courses For Cooks Courses for Cooks is owned and run by Jenny Thomson. A cook and chef for over 20 years, Jenny trained at the renowned Leiths School of Food and Wine, London. She practiced her art working as a private cook in Scotland, France, Canada and The United States, coming back to Scotland…
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Stewart Macaulay, Head Chef at The Adamson in St. Andrews
May 16, 2016
Festival
Stewart Macaulay, Head Chef at The Adamson in St. Andrews In the heart of St Andrews at 127 South Street, The Adamson is the perfect place to eat, drink and socialise. Throughout 2016, The Adamson is creating a set of seasonal menus as part of the restaurant’s dedication to using the freshest ingredients and commitment to sustainability in…
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Crail Food Festival 2016 is nearly here!
May 16, 2016
Festival / Food / Participants
CRAIL FOOD FESTIVAL 2016 IS NEARLY HERE! With a little over a month to go, Crail Food Festival is on everyone’s radar! One of the most anticipated events on the Food & Drink calendar has much to look forward to! We are going to look at what you can expect in a little more detail…
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Thank you to everyone involved in the 5th Crail Food Festival
June 19, 2015
Festival
A week after the 5th Crail Food Festival, we just want to thank everyone who’s been involved in the delivery and enjoyment of this year’s events. If you would like to help us improve for future years, please complete the short on-line survey (approximately 5 minutes) – there’s even a chance to win a hamper!…
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Jannetta’s make Mara Seaweed Ice-Cream for Crail Food Festival
June 13, 2015
Festival / Food / Participants
Two local food producers have collaborated to create a delicious lemon and Mara seaweed ice-cream for Crail Food Festival. The innovative ice-cream is made from Shony, a unique blend of seaweeds hand-harvested by Mara Seaweed from the seabed around Crail. Developed jointly by Jannettas Gelateria in St Andrews and Mara Seaweed, the ice-cream will be sold during the Crail…
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Crail Food Festival 2015 – Final Programme Leaflet
June 12, 2015
Festival
Here are the final details on our printed leaflets to help you. These will be available at venues around Crail over the weekend of the Festival. See you there! 2015-crail-food-festival-leaflet-final …
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Golden Harvest at Crail Food Festival
June 12, 2015
Festival / Food / Participants
Inland from Crail, spring and summer see the fields patchworked with the golden flowers of oilseed rape. This year’s Crail Food Festival sees not one but two cold pressed rapeseed producers joining the diverse range of local food producers on offer, testament to the oil’s rising popularity in recent years. Supernature and Summer Harvest are among the seven…
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Green’s of Crail
June 11, 2015
Food / Participants
For a cook, walking into Green’s is the equivalent of sending a child into a candy store. (Actually, you might want to bring the child too). The shop is open and bright, with punnets of fresh fruit drawing your attention from outside the store; seasonal strawberries being particularly appealing this month. Beyond the colourful selection…
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Meet the Chocolatiers at Crail Food Festival
June 9, 2015
Festival / Food / Participants
Not only do we have for the first time, an area totally designated to chocolate, but The Chocolate Larder at the Town Hall in Crail will also be conducting FREE tastings of the delights the 6 chocolatiers have to offer. There will also be talks and chocolate & drink pairings too. Claire Baker of Considerit Chocolate – talks…
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Putting the East Neuk on the Whisky Map
June 8, 2015
East Neuk / Food / Participants
As Crail Food Festival-goers know, the East Neuk of Fife punches well above its weight for production of wonderful food. In terms of drink, until recently you had to go further afield. Thankfully, that has all changed with the opening in December last year of the Kingsbarns Distillery. The East Neuk is now well and truly…
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Meet the Producers at Crail Food Festival
June 7, 2015
Festival / Participants
Crail Legion Hall plays host to a series of Meet the Producers workshops on Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th June during the Crail Food Festival. It’s your chance to get ‘up close’ with some of our region’s finest producers of food and drink and find out more about their businesses. Tickets for these sessions are…
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Meet the Chefs at Crail Food Festival
June 2, 2015
Festival / Participants
Throughout the weekend of the 5th Annual Crail Food Festival, some of Fife’s finest chefs will present demonstrations at the Cookery Theatre in Crail Kirk Hall, supported by Ardross Farm Shop. Tickets for these sessions are available to buy when you purchase our Market Day or Harbour Day tickets, available on-line now! The running order is:…
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Rose Veal by Good Life Farming
May 29, 2015
Festival / Food
Food bloggers are supposed to be keen to try anything food-related but I have to admit I was very nervous about this assignment and how on earth veal could fit with my high ethical standards? Now I have done my research I am completely happy to recommend rose veal – as long as you source…
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The best hot chocolate … ever?
May 26, 2015
East Neuk / Festival / Participants
There are a lots of reasons to visit Crail Food Festival, but chocolate should be high up on your list! I recently visited Sophie Latinis, Belgian-born chocolatier and owner of the Pittenweem Chocolate Company, at her Cocoa Tree Café in the beautiful Pittenweem and discovered a whole new world of chocolate…. The Pittenweem Chocolate Company…
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Film Night at Crail Town Hall
May 25, 2015
Art / Festival
Many of Crail’s village halls are being turned into “themed venues” this year and the Town Hall is no different: six artisan chocolatiers will be on hand over the weekend giving our visitors the opportunity to taste indulgent handmade chocolate. To launch The Chocolate Larder, Crail Film Club continues with a screening of the film…
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Evening Supper at Crail Kirk Hall
May 24, 2015
Festival / Food
This event cuts the tape on our festival in the setting of our fabulous cookery theatre. As with all Food Festival evening events, it’s drinks on arrival. We’ve teamed up with our friends at Kingsbarns Distillery to toast the festival and St Andrews Wine Company will be on hand to pour the plonk. Mike Lewis…
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An Evening of Patter and Batter
May 24, 2015
Festival / Food
We open our Patter and Batter evening event on Saturday 13 June 2015 at Crail Community Hall with drinks on arrival. Our artist for the night is one of the UK’s few professional stand up comedy magicians, Chris Dinwoodie, direct from Glasgow! We will be serving him up with traditional fish ‘n’ chips from our…
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A question of wine in St Andrews
May 23, 2015
Food / Participants
Peter Wood has been running his store, the St Andrews Wine Company, since 2012, and it was a real pleasure, and education, to pay him a visit there to find out what his plans are for Crail Food Festival this year. As it was a sunny Wednesday morning when I visited, a steady stream of…
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5 places for ice cream in the East Neuk
May 19, 2015
East Neuk / Festival / Food
As you wind your way along the East Neuk villages, either by foot along the Fife Coastal Path, or on short drives, it’s good to know where the spots are to find ice cream. An essential part of any family holiday, the East Neuk has plenty of places for you to find a cooling ice on…
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Award-Winning Chilli Farm is Hot Property in Fife
May 12, 2015
Food / Participants
I arrived at Chillilicious one gloriously sunny April afternoon to find co-proprietor Stacey Galfskiy chasing chickens round a pleasantly warm polytunnel packed with chilli plants. “Apparently, they really like chillies,” she grinned, which possibly accounts for why recently arrived rescue cockerel Ollie was particularly reluctant to leave. Two minutes later, after finally succeeding in coaxing…
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Meeting the Pie Man
May 8, 2015
Food / Participants
I love a good pie, who doesn’t! Crisp pastry of any description, succulent, moist filling, hot or cold – I don’t care. But when it comes to a pork, game or any hot water crust shrouded pie, I’m so often left disappointed, until I met a pie man by the name of Robert Corrigan a.k.a. Mr C’s…
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Leila’s Larder featuring The Global Ketchup Company
May 1, 2015
East Neuk / Festival / Food / Participants
After getting married in 2013, Leila and Philip Diakomanolis soon packed up their home in London and headed to Scotland with a plan. That plan was to find a property on Fife’s golden coast that had enough space to establish a diversified business in condiments manufacturing and food focused hospitality. Soon after finding a property…
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Behind the scenes at the Crail Food Festival
April 24, 2015
Festival
This year’s Crail Food Festival will be the 5th time the village of Crail has played host to visitors from near and far looking to sample the delights of Fife’s abundant larder and visiting the corner of Fife affectionately known as the East Neuk. As soon as the last stall had been dismantled on the…
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The Good Granola Company
April 21, 2015
Festival / Food / Participants
The sun is out (at least for now) and the Crail Food Festival is quickly approaching. In case you’re not familiar, the three-day event showcases businesses from around Scotland and beyond. It’s an opportunity to celebrate as a community and indulge in the bounty this land has to offer. It’s also a chance to meet…
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Eden Mill – What’s in a Name?
April 17, 2015
Festival / Food / Participants
What’s in a name? Well, quite a lot in this case, as the change from Eden Brewery to Eden Mill for this St Andrews-based business is a significant one. Brewing a range of fine local ales only since 2012, Eden Brewery quickly established a following and a huge reputation for the quality of its beers,…
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Ardross Farm and Shop
April 10, 2015
Festival / Food / Participants
I was delighted to be asked to be part of the Crail Food Festival blogging team again this year and even more delighted to learn that my assignment would take me to Ardross Farm Shop in Elie. I had heard Ardross mentioned for quite some time in rather hallowed tones and had always wanted to…
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It’s all about the ingredients
April 3, 2015
Festival / Food / Participants
For the people of Crail, it is hard to believe that Smoked Fired Whole Foods has been open little more than a year. It has swiftly become part of the place it is were you can find all manner of foods and beautiful ceramics. No longer do they have to go to Dundee or Edinburgh to…
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Crail Food Festival Articles – Your opportunity to feature
February 20, 2015
Participants
Crail Food Festival is a community festival which promotes local businesses and encourages visitors to the area to taste and enjoy local food and drink. To this end, we have re-designed our website for this year to feature every producer or trader who participates in our festival, as well as local businesses in the area. There…
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Crail Food Festival 2015 – public meeting
December 10, 2014
Festival
You are invited to a public meeting on 8 January 2015 – a chance for local businesses, food producers and volunteers to hear about the outcomes of the 2014 Crail Food Festival and be part of the planning process for 2015. All welcome. 7 pm on 8 January 2015 in Crail Kirk Hall. …
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Crail Food Festival: our events 14 – 15 June 2014
June 25, 2014
Contributor / Festival / Food / Participants
On 14 and 15 June 2014 the 4th annual Crail Food Festival was held in the picturesque village of Crail, in the East Neuk of Fife. Here’s our summary of some of the events and stories. If you visited and took photos, please add them to our Flickr Group: https://www.flickr.com/groups/crailfoodfest http://storify.com/crailfoodfest/crail-food-festival-2014…
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Crail Food Festival: past, present and future
June 13, 2014
Festival / Participants
In 2007, Graham Anderson visited the East Coast of Scotland with his partner Edna whilst on holiday from Renfrew. They immediately fell in love with Crail and the following year moved to the gorgeous East Neuk village to follow their dream of running the Honeypot Guesthouse and Tearoom. Not long after, the idea for Crail Food…
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Courses for Cooks – Q&A with Jenny Thomson
June 10, 2014
Food / Participants
By Derek Swan (@hungry_swan http://thehungryswan.blogspot.co.uk/) I’ve been the fortunate recipient of vouchers to various cook schools across Scotland in recent years, all of which have been enjoyable but involving a bit of a trek from my home in Pittenweem. I hadn’t been aware of one right in the heart of Fife until being introduced to…
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Crail Food Festival Cheers! with a Gin Cocktail
June 2, 2014
Festival / Food / Participants
Last year a friend and I packed the car and headed to Crail for the food festival. We had a wonderful weekend. Saturday we spent the day tasting and listening to various cooking and drink talks in the Community Hall. The weather was beautiful and this carried on to the Sunday at the Harbour. We did…
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Give Me Lemons and I’ll Make Lemonade
May 27, 2014
Festival / Food / Participants
Who could have failed to notice these wee beauties at the many Scottish foodie events? When you grow amazing strawberries like Claire and Ross Rennie do on the family farm in Aberdeenshire, besides picking and punneting them, what else can you do? Cover them in chocolate of course. Berry Scrumptious is the brainchild of Claire…
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Seriously Good Venison Review
May 23, 2014
Festival / Food / Participants
Seriously serendipitous stroke of luck! How else could one describe my assignment from Crail Food Festival to review the Seriously Good Venison company, coming as it did in the very week I attended a venison cookery masterclass?! Venison is remarkably healthy for you. It is very low in fat, leaner even than skinless chicken and…
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Crail Food Festival at St Andrews Tourism Showcase
May 21, 2014
Festival / Food
As part of our activities in making sure that as many people know about the Crail Food Festival as possible, some of the team headed to St Andrews on 20 May to participate in the first St Andrews Tourism Showcase, being hosted by the Fife Tourism Partnership. Attended by around 40 tourism businesses from around…
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COOKING WITH BEER – CRAIL FOOD FESTIVAL 2014
May 16, 2014
Food
Beery Mac ‘n’ cheese in St. Andrew Brewing Co. Mussels cooked in St. Andrews Brewing Co. Crail Ale Venison shank braised in Eden Brewery beer Eden Brewery ‘Shipwrecked’ Beer Battered Pollock with homemade tartar sauce and minted mushy broad beans WE ARE EXTREMELY fortunate to have two of Scotland’s finest craft breweries in Fife. The…
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Sugar heart for a sweet tooth
May 13, 2014
Art / Festival / Food / Participants
Nothing gets my sweet tooth tingling quite like the prospect of tucking in to a lusciously moist cake or crumbly, buttery biscuit, so when the organisers of the Crail Food Festival asked me to write a guest blog post featuring Sucre Cœur, I was more than eager to find out more about them. Sucre Cœur,…
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A Fishy Tale from Crail
May 9, 2014
Festival / Food / Participants
“Iain Spink from Arbroath Smokies will be at the festival, so could you include a smoked fish recipe? Oh, and do try to mention the Crail capon if you can.” So read my rather intriguing brief from Crail Food Festival this year, and I have to confess to not having the first clue at that…
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Celebrating Fresh Bread in Fife
May 6, 2014
Food
I arrive early and sit in my car in the car park outside the Victory Hall, Collessie in North East Fife. It’s utterly still, occasionally one car swoops along the lane. A village hall seems both an unlikely place and an obvious place for a bakery. After all it’s the heart of the community. Each…
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Herbs with IntegriTea
May 2, 2014
Food / Participants
I am a huge tea Jenny. (Just to clarify, that’s a person who loves tea very much, not a huge person made of tea and called Jenny.) Throughout the day I often choose tea over water, from the muddy tarry caffeinated stuff that gets me into the land of the living at 6am, to chamomile…
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Chillilicious: A passion for food, art and flavour burns bright
April 25, 2014
Food
Just outside Ceres, a pretty village a few miles from Cupar, you’ll find Briery Hall, home to Chillilicious, Britain’s most northerly chilli farm. The family run business produces handmade chutneys, preserves and beautiful chilli-related artwork from their two and a half acres, and plans for the future see them turning up the heat in this…
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A tale of two cheeses
April 18, 2014
Festival / Food / Participants
My assignment for this year’s Crail Food Festival made me very happy, not only did it involve one of my favourite foods but also one of my favourite Fife producers, the wonderful St Andrews Cheese company – who make their unique selection of Anster Cheeses. So what makes Jane Stewart’s cheese so special? The unpasteurised…
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