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From amaranth to zabaglione, Sheila Dillon and Derek Cooper investigate every aspect of the food we eat. |
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- Derek's biography
- Derek's interview
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"Cooper is a man with tremendous gusto and passion for the pleasures of life and food, but he is also a man who has a blazing fury with those who are responsible for allowing our food supply to have become so contaminated and with those countless others who accept this state with apathy and disregard."
Journalist Colin Spencer |
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CROFTING
In the wake of Scottish land reform, Sheila Dillon traces the history and the future of Highland crofting and the food culture it fostered.
It’s a year since the historic Land Reform Bill was passed in the Scottish Parliament. Some denounced it as a ‘Mugabe style land grab’, but it was meant to give rural communities the power to buy out their landlord in a country where fewer than 1% of the people own more than 80% of the land.
Sheila goes to the Highlands to visit the revolutionary crofters whose work paved the way for the community ownership movement when they staged a buy-out more than ten years ago. She cooks up some of the delicious food culture of the crofting community and hears about the history of crofting.
We’ll also be hearing the landowners point of view and finding out how the new legislation will affect crofting community and landowner alike.
Taking part:
Bill Ritchie, Founding Director of the Assynt Crofters’ Trust
Katharine Stewart, former crofter, author of many books on crofting.
Croft in the Hills by Katharine Stewart published by Melven P. ISBN 0950588466
The Crofting Way by Katharine Stewart published by The Mercat Press ISBN 187364499X.
Jennifer Robertson and Jimmy Fraser, crofters from the Gairloch Estate in Rossshire.
John MacKenzie, landlord of the Gairloch Estate.
Colin Craig and Lesley Crossfield, owners of the Albannach Hotel in Lochinver.
The Albannach Hotel
Baddidarroch
Lochinver
Sutherland
IV27 4LP
Tel: 01571 844407
info@thealbannach.co.uk
Colin Tudge, Research Fellow at the Centre for Philosophy at the London School of Economics.
Author of many books including the recently published So Shall We Reap.
So Shall We Reap by Colin Tudge published by Allen Lane ISBN 0713996404.
Shane Rankin, Chief Executive of the Crofters’ Commission
CroftersCommission
Castle Wynd
Inverness
Scotland
IV2 3EQTel: 01463 663450
Fax: 01463 711820
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