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Profile: Cate Devine

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Food Writer And Columnist

Cate Devine, Food Writer, The Herald and heraldscotland.com I've covered the Scottish food scene for 25 years and have been at The Herald for almost 19 of them. I have a weekly food column in The Herald Magazine, as well as the Inside Track column in The Herald and regular exclusive food news features on the News pages. I also sometimes cover the Arts. All my work for The Herald is available to read in both print and online at heraldscotland.com. I'd love to hear your views on what I write; you can post comments online.

Latest articles from Cate Devine

Mary Contini, right, of Valvona & Crolla pictured with her daughter Francesca in Valvona & Crolla, Elm Row, Edinburgh. Photograph by Colin Mearns

Family restaurants boosted by unexpected Covid side-effect

From Monday, pubs and restaurants will be allowed to serve alcohol indoors in all areas of Scotland, apart from Moray and Glasgow, until 10.30pm. Cate Devine finds out how the pandemic has helped some independent family restaurants seize the initiative from the big chain restaurants

Cail Bruich head chef Lorna McNee with co-owners and brothers Chris, left, and Paul Charalambous at the restaurant on Great Western Road

Star attraction who put Glasgow back on the global culinary map

THE significance of gaining Glasgow’s first Michelin star for 17 years as the new head chef of restaurant Cail Bruich has not bypassed the modest Lorna McNee.

Glasgow Community Food Network plan

Glasgow golf course could become urban farm

Hopes of converting one of Glasgow’s golf courses into the city’s first urban farm ahead of COP26 have taken a step closer to becoming reality following a major award from the National Lottery to be announced today.

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Mary Contini of Valvona & Crolla pictured in Valvona & Crolla, Elm Row, Edinburgh. Photograph by Colin Mearns.

Queen's Birthday Honours: OBE for Herald food columnist Mary Contini

The Herald Magazine’s food columnist Mary Contini has been awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for “services to the Scottish food industry and Scottish-Italian relations”.

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The summit is die to take place at the SEC in Glasgow.

UN climate summit could change the way Glaswegians eat forever

The aim is to put the climate crisis under the spotlight and to secure progress towards tackling a global threat.

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Adult diners are acting like spoilt children

Cate Devine: Adult diners are acting like spoilt children

Cate Devine

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Aran Bakery

Bake Off's Flora Shedden: 'My generation has a delusional approach to food'

Cate Devine

Jay Rayner's latest book finds him on a journey to source his last supper.

Review: My Last Supper: One Meal, One Lifetime in the Making, by Jay Rayner

My Last Supper: One Meal, One Lifetime in the Making

Alexander McCall Smith. Picture by Kirsty Anderson.

Review: The Second Worst Restaurant in France, by Alexander McCall Smith

The Second Worst Restaurant in France

Cate Devine remebers beloved Gleneagles chef Andrew Fairlie

Cate Devine: Invited into Andrew Fairlie's beloved kitchen, I was struck by his utter calm

Of my many warm memories of Andrew Fairlie, one of the most enduring is when, with typical generosity, he allowed me into his beloved kitchen to shadow him during one of the busiest services of the year. It was Christmas time many years ago and he was on top form. From my vantage point, tucked well out of the way of his busy brigade and their steaming hot pots and pans, I remember being struck by his utter calm.