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People have been traveling to Scotland for centuries - but never for the food. While Scottish beef, game, salmon and shellfish are prized by top chefs the world over, you are more likely to enjoy the best stuff in Madrid than in Edinburgh, because the lucrative export market consumes the best produce. The nation's cooking has long been a source of dismay to food-loving visitors and locals alike. But now a new generation of culinary bravehearts is transforming Scotland's gastronomic landscape. The notoriously sniffy Michelin guide awarded a star to two new restaurants in 2002, bringing the total...
...even more drastic measures are not taken, depleted stocks may never recover. They are calling on the E.U. to ban trawlers from taking cod, haddock and whiting from the North Sea altogether. But even Fischler's proposal is enough to terrify and enrage fishermen. Alex Smith, chairman of the Scottish Fishermen's Federation, claims that if fishery is reduced by 80%, the whole industry will collapse, at a cost of 20,000 jobs. To demonstrate their opposition to the proposed cuts, hundreds of fishermen from several European countries last week motored out from North Sea ports and obstructed shipping routes...
DIED. LONNIE DONEGAN, 71, Scottish rock and blues musician who in the 1950s introduced Britain to "skiffle"--a precursor to rock 'n' roll that combines folk, jug band, country, jazz and blues--inspiring musicians like John Lennon, Van Morrison and Pete Townshend; after a long battle with heart ailments; in Peterborough, England. Among his hits were Rock Island Line and Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor (on the Bedpost Overnight...
...Glenmorangie distillery near Tain in the Scottish highlands, the distillers explain that their name means "valley of tranquillity" in Gaelic. Lately, however, Glenmorangie has echoed with the noise of builders and fitters enlarging the distillery. The family-controlled business has expanded three times since 1977, when it first doubled output to meet growing world demand. Production doubled again in 1990, and with the completion of the latest extension, the makers of the world's third best-selling malt whisky - meaning it's made from malted barley, unlike the grain whisky that makes up the bulk of most blended Scotch - will...
...Shannon P. O’Brien struggled to maintain a razor-thin lead in the Massachusetts gubernatorial campaign, she and other state Democrats celebrated with a Scottish pipe band at a Cambridge hotel on Friday night...