“I wish I could join you, But perhaps you could share this recipe with your friends instead.”
Rose Jamieson lives in Perthshire so was not able to join us for our recent events in Out of the Blue Drill Hall. But her cake was a hot favourite on the desert stall at Jock Tamson’s Brunch. We’re hoping Rose can join us in person when World Kitchen in Leith goes on tour (no kidding, more about that later) but meanwhile here’s her lovely apple cake recipe… Continue reading “A cake for all weathers”
“We have become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.” Jimmy Carter
Welcoming guests to Put the World on Your Plate, Agnes Ngulube Holmes quoted Jimmy Carter. The words were a tribute to the great diversity around her at Sunday’s multicultural event when World Kitchen in Leith served up a fusion of foods inspired by the pictures and stories in Jock Tamson’s Bairns exhibition. This is not your stereotypical view of Scotland’s capital city.
I translated at the Nuremberg Trials. I looked Hess in the eyes….I still didn’t know what had happened to my family. David Goldberg
The World Kitchen multicultural brunch at Out of the Blue on Sunday 1 April was inspired by the unforgettable stories in Jock Tamson’s Bairns Exhibition. If you saw the words and pictures on display during Previously, Scotland’s History Festival you will know why.
Thanks to Clara Massie we are ending the year with words and pictures from an inspiring exhibition celebrating the great contribution migrants make to the cultural wealth of Scotland. The exhibition is over – for the time being anyway – but the impact remains. Continue reading “We’re All Jock Tamson’s Bairns”
Apple pancakes with cinnamon butter, a variation on a traditional Scottish theme, went down well at World Kitchen in Leith events this year, here’s the recipe from Fay Young.
Ok, I know dropped scones are really meant for teatime. But they can be good at breakfast too – perhaps, sinfully, fried with bacon and served with maple syrup as a Scottish variation on the Canadian theme. Continue reading “Pancakes for breakfast, tea…any time at all”
So near to winning. The ambitious scheme for the Portobello and Leith Wind Turbine will succeed if enough people vote for it on the Energy Share Fund website. Right now it’s in second place and it’s beginning to look very close indeed. If we can all encourage friends to vote before 3 December Edinburgh could gain the first community-owned wind project in a UK city. You just need to click here. Continue reading “Voting for renewable energy in Leith”
At World Kitchen in Leith events, Alice’s beans in coconut disappear off the plates in record time and everyone wants to know how to make them. Well, here Alice Musamba shares the secret and a little extra tip: the coconut sauce can be adapted to suit many other vegetables. In fact at last night’s World Kitchen meeting she brought a pot of delicious mushrooms in coconut. They soon disappeared off the plate too.
The trail ends beneath a thick and prickly holly bush in Rosebank Cemetery. It’s an unmarked grave which seems odd and sad for a man who made such an impact when he was alive. His portrait is in the National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh, a plaque honours his birthplace in Peebles and, perhaps most importantly of all, his name lives on in the sweet and crunchy apple known as James Grieve.
Continue reading “James Grieve, in seach of a local (hidden) hero”
When Agnes Ngulube Holmes goes shopping for World Food Day she finds herself transported from an Edinburgh street to the African continent. This is what she found.
Rami Okasha rustled up a taste of Egypt for World Food Day. Here he gives his recipe for Falafel and makes it sound very simple. That’s Rami in the picture on the right busy dishing up to the stream of people arriving for lunch at Out of the Blue Drill Hall (Ellie and Maka are on the left). Continue reading “A feeling for Falafel”