News on Scottish Food

2010-03-15 18th Annual Scottish Festival

You might need some more running to walk off all the delicious food at the annual Scottish festival in Panama City.

There was plenty of music, activities for the kids, the highland games and of course everyones favorite Scottish eggs. Were told the festival gets bigger and better each year.

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Kilts took over Panama City Saturday for the annual Scottish Festival. - Scottish Festival

2010-03-13 Morrisons profits up by 21 pct. - Herald Scotland Business Corporate and SME

Supermarket group Wm Morrison said its Scottish stores are outperforming the rest of the UK by less than they were as it reported a 21 pct. hike in underlying pre-tax profit to 767m and raised its dividend 41 pct.

But it has also successfully attracted a new breed of younger, more wealthy, shopper by highlighting its fresh food offering.

Pennycook said Morrison would not expand its non-food range to catch up with rivals. Non-food is currently just 6 pct. of its sales.

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2010-03-06 Inuvik Drum News Briefs - Beaufort/Delta NWT

Youngsters aspiring to the traditional Scottish art of the Highland dance can practise their footwork with Letha Woodfine at Wednesday night classes at the Midnight Sun Complex.

The Inuvik Food Bank is looking for donations of plastic or reusable bags that food bank users can then use to carry their food.

Those with bags to spare can drop them off Wednesdays from 6 to 8 p. m. The food bank is also looking for a volunteer bookkeeper to help set up a new filing system.

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2010-03-05 Scotland urged to cash in on sports refugees from London Olympics News

A YEAR-LONG celebration of Scotlands food and drink will be the follow-up to Scotlands Homecoming celebrations, it emerged yesterday. Food festivals, markets and new events are expected to be part of the biggest promotional drive yet for the nations produce. Leading chefs, hotels, bars, restaurants and cafs will take part in the campaign, which will start in May. The government wants to boost the value of Scotlands food and drink from 9. 5 billion to 12. 5bn by 2017.

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Scotland urged to cash in on sports refugees from London Olympics - SCOTLANDS tourism industry was yesterday urged to target Londoners keen to leave the city during the 2012 Olympics.

2010-02-26 The CEU Eagle Online :: CEU welcomes students around the world

Gilmour experienced a strong sense of culture shock on arriving at CEU and is still adapting to the atmosphere. One thing that has been difficult is the food. She finds it difficult to eat healthy because there are fast food businesses all over, however she does enjoy eating at Subway as she used to eat there at home.

Gilmour misses having her mom cook for her and it is harder to shop here since you can only buy many items in bulk. She relates that in Scotland, you can buy food and groceries in much smaller quantities, such as for only one person, so it makes buying food here more challenging. However, everything is much cheaper here in the states.

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2010-02-23 High welfare in livestock rearing important to shoppers (From Smallholder)

Other Freedom Food highlights include: Number of ducks in the scheme up 84 per cent (about 42 per cent of UK production) 17 per cent increase in turkeys (nearly seven per cent of UK production) Chicken up by nearly nine per cent following a 125 per cent hike in 08 versus 07 (more than seven per cent of UK production)** Leigh Grant, Chief Executive of Freedom Food, said: Faced with the credit crunch we were worried the number of animals under Freedom Food would also take a downturn. But thanks to consistent consumer demand for higher welfare, the opposite has happened. More than 530 million animals are now being reared to the RSPCAs welfare standards, compared to one million when the scheme began 15 years ago. We had more applications from farmers wanting to join the scheme last year than ever before.

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Freedom Food announces record number of animals reared to RSPCA standards British shoppers are standing firm by animal welfare in 2010 as Freedom Food today reported a record breaking 532 million farm animals are being reared under its scheme to the RSPCAs higher welfare standards. This is a 46 per cent increase since 2008.

2009-12-08 Great Scot loves the Highlands - Local News - News - General - Southern Highland News

The food master is now sharing his expertise as a judge of cooking events and as a mentor to the junior national culinary team.

Mr Murray is also a member of the recently formed Southern Highlands Agri-tourism Committee, which aims to promote the food and wine industry of the region.

I love incorporating local produce in all my food and we even grow some of our own ingredients in the vineyard grounds.

Mr Murray said he had several other projects in the pipeline which he hoped would further promote the availability and appeal of home-grown foods.

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Scottish-born Robin Murray is a proud ambassador for his home Down Under.

2009-12-05 Scotland Creates New Diet Range To Control Hunger Gov Monitor

The aim of the research is to provide a sound basis for improved dietary advice to consumers and also to provide science which can be translated into ways to improve the healthiness of primary and secondary food products for the benefit of both the rural and food industry sectors in Scotland and the UK and so make a significant contribution to Scotlands Food and Drink Policy.

This is an exciting collaboration between Marks and Spencer and the University of Aberdeen Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health that brings together the scientific understanding and knowledge of academia with the design of new food choices by the food industry to provide a new range of calorie-counted options.

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A Scottish-Government funded research institute has helped create a new diet range that is said to help control hunger.

2009-12-03 Regeneration in the newspapers: SNP offers referendum concessions - (BulletinTitle) -Regen. net

Reports of diluted Scottish National Party proposals on Holyrood powers and news that the London mayor is demanding greater financial independence for the capital feature in todays round-up.

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2009-11-30 Gerard Butler blames his problems with women on absent dad

WASHINGTON - Hollywood actor Gerard Butlers personal trainer often takes away fatty foods from his house to help the star stay in shape. The Scottish star admits that he lacks self-control and binges on food late at night.

WASHINGTON - Scottish actor Gerard Butler is so harried by the paparazzi following him that he has taken to playing a cat and mouse game with them. Butler, 39, has become a well-known star, and with rumours of a romance with actress Jennifer Aniston, he has become the hot target for celebrity photographers.

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WASHINGTON - Scottish actor Gerard Butler has revealed that he believes his growing up without a father has caused him to have commitment issues. - Washington Entertainment