NORTH Uist pincer end crab claw meat and smoked haddock with chives and cheddar are some of the highlights on the menu this weekend at a new foodie event. As well as choice cuts from some of the city's top chefs at Let's Eat Glasgow, you can also pick up a meal bag from Moogety Grub Hub, a social enterprise aiming to tackle food poverty in Govan.
With a community garden, a hub where cooking classes are held 30 and a co-operative fruit and veg shop soon to open, it offers the tools people need to live a healthier life. It will get a chance to showcase some of its produce, as well as its ideas, at the pop-up market featuring artisan food and drink producers from across the west of Scotland as well as innovative food-based social enterprises such as Moogety Grub Hub.
Scotland's first truly indigenous restaurant festival and pop-up market, staged by the new Real Food, Real Folk co-operative, brings together Glasgow's most inspired and passionate chefs and eateries from Cail Bruich, the Cottonrake Bakery, Crabshakk, The Gannet, Guys, Mother India, Ox and Finch, Stravaigin and the Ubiquitous Chip as well as craft beers and spirits and handpicked wines.
The not-for-profit co-operative, launched by Colin Clydesdale of the Ubiquitous Chip, has two aims – to promote Glasgow's increasingly lively and diverse food scene as one to rival the likes of New York, Tokyo, Barcelona and London and equally to help raise debate about, and help tackle, the poor nutrition and food awareness prevalent across some areas of the city.
While you journey from field to fork and sample the trio of mini Scottish pies, bhel puri with coconut salmon and hazelnut dukkah in the former Customs and Excise tobacco bond in the city's West End, there is also the opportunity to get a better appreciation of the value of the fresh, food and drink available on our doorstep and some ideas for cooking more healthily and creatively at home.
More long lasting will be the effect on Moogety Grub Hub. By selling its meal bags, containing everything you need to pull together a simple recipe, right down to the correct measure of rice or grains and even a stock cube, Moogety Grub Hub, has the chance to achieve sustainability. That's something to raise a glass to.
Visit www.letseatglasgow.co.uk
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