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Scotland's Food

Short films and exclusive web clips which explore the world of food. Supporting both informal and formal learning, many of these films have a particular Scottish flavour.

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Accounting for taste

Why do we like the foods we do? What part do culture, smell and colour, for example, play in our taste for different foods?

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Food technology

Watch as Jimmy Docherty tries to make his own versions of common supermarket foods in his makeshift food factory. Join him as he travels to the world's largest ice cream factory and beyond.

Jimmy's Food Factory: Second Helpings

In season

Michelin-starred chef, Tom Kitchin explains why he passionately believes that in order to get the best from our food we should eat seasonal, local produce.

Food Stuff: Tom Kitchin on Scotland's food

Biological control

Recent innovations are allowing growers of soft fruit to increase production, without using pesticides.

Food Stuff: Pesticide-free soft fruit

World class

The waters around the Orkney Islands are a rich source of high-quality seafood, and shellfish caught here are exported around the world.

Food Stuff: Orkney exports

Marag dubh

Stornoway black pudding is world-renowned and now steps are being taken to protect this traditional food from impostors.

Food Stuff: Stornoway black pudding

Community allotments

Watch short films, made with pupils from Merrylee Primary School's allotment group and volunteers from the North Glasgow Community Food Initiative, exploring what food means to them.

L.A.B Food stories

Spreading love

Twenty-year-old entrepeneur Fraser Doherty started making jam with his grandmother. Before long he was selling to supermarkets. Now he uses some of his profits to fund tea dances for local pensioners.

Food Stuff: Fraser Docherty

New flavours

The family-run Greek Golden Kebab is Scotland's oldest Greek restaurant. The Kyriacou family, their chef and diners chat about the emotional, social and cultural meaning of food.

Food Stuff: Greek food comes to Scotland

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