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Top chef's beehive creating buzz about the city

IT gained widespread infamy in the classic 1930s novel No Mean City as Scotland's toughest slum, populated by vicious razor gangs.
Tasting the McCartney food legacy

Paul McCartney's first-born is so self-effacing she prefers to slip into a room rather than have herself announced by a PR flunkey.
Kitchin urges Scots cooks to enter shows

TOM Kitchin, Scotland's youngest Michelin starred chef, has urged more Scottish cooks, both professional and amateur, to put themselves forward for television shows such as MasterChef.

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Recipes for success: Herald celebrity chefs share their secrets

Recipe: Chicken Mole Poblano

Such is the breadth of Mexican cuisine that I struggle to suggest a single dish that typifies it. After discussing this in great detail with my two brothers-in-law, who live in Mexico City, we came to the conclusion that chicken mole would be our choice.
Cooking with morel mushrooms

One of the jewels in the gastronomic crown, the morel mushroom is gracing us now with its elegant and rather pricy return.

Scotland has to become a nation that enjoys food and knows how to cook it

It's unusual to see the ever-ebullient Nick Nairn looking tired, but then he does have a cast-iron excuse.
The lost world of fruit and vegetables

Thank ill-considered EU bureaucracy: it was the trigger for this awesome book.
Pot of soup revolution

The Fife Diet may sound small but it's the largest local food project in Europe.

A new world of oysters

The pale blues, greys, browns, greens and creams of the natural north Barra landscape are one of the things that make the rugged Outer Hebridean island truly a sight for sore eyes.

Wine, by Pete Stewart

There used to be a rule book for matching food and wine, but I for one have long since thrown it out the window.
Strength and weakness

I wrote about E&J Gallo's plans to seduce us with their lusciously sweet moscato recently.
Something bubbly

I love jelly and ice cream as much as the next big kid but it does tend to hamper the wine matching process.

How to beat the booze price hike – a bootlegger's guide

THE nay-sayers talk prohibition and claim the 50p-per-unit price hike is another cross for the squeezed middle class to bear.
Wine, by Pete Stewart

I love jelly and ice cream as much as the next big kid but it does tend to hamper the wine matching process.