Word: crofter
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...Lake of Menteith, in the gateway to the Highlands. "Ten years ago nobody would have dreamed of opening a cookery school in Scotland," he says. Now his courses are booked months in advance. Nairn is only one of the chefs updating the image of Scottish cookery. In a converted crofter's cottage on the Isle of Skye - a ruggedly beautiful island just off Scotland's west coast - a chef named Shirley Spear is turning out food that takes full advantage of the area's extraordinary produce. Spear's restaurant-with-rooms, The Three Chimneys, was acclaimed...
...CROFTER AND THE LAIRD by John McPhee, 159 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
...pest of hell"), struggling to make a living from the land and the edges of the sea, engulfed in a romantic sense of the past that curls over and around the island like a North Sea fog. McPhee settled down in a cottage sublet from a crofter named Donald Gibbie to watch and listen. The result is a small masterpiece of penetrating warmth and perception...
...hundreds of psychological portraits of war figures, Macmillan thus characterized Mussolini's successor, Marshal Badoglio: "Honest, broadminded, humorous. I should judge of peasant origin." It might stand also as a fair self-portrait of the grandson of a Scots crofter...
...John Brown was thirty-five, with red-gold hair and beard and a precisely shaven upper lip, handsome in a big, scrubbed, leathery sort of Highland way. His eyes were remarkable, fierce and kindly, gentle and naming: but who among the aristocratic Household noticed the eyes of a kilted crofter, faintly odoriferous no doubt of sweat, who lived among the grooms...