Food Tourism Workshops – practical, thought provoking and fun!

This Foodkit is about giving you practical tips and advice for providing your visitors with the best possible Scottish food experience. To complement this, we are currently developing and piloting a range of Food workshops which offer information on cooking, keeping costs under control and presenting Scottish dishes. To date we have delivered 8 workshops, covering Breakfast, Game and Traditional Scottish dishes with a modern twist. They are workshops with a difference because demonstrations are run concurrently around the floor and you decide which you want to attend and in which order. The workshops cover three main themes which are demonstrated in three sessions around the room and the whole workshop lasts a morning.

Breakfast Workshop
Recent research tells us that visitors to Scotland
complain most about our breakfasts. They can often
be the only meal taken at their accommodation and
are often the last food experience they have before
departing. It is vital for Scotland and our tourism
businesses that our visitors have an excellent breakfast
experience and one that echoes their overall experience
of Scotland.
The themes are:

• Contemporary Scottish breakfast dishes
  
• Vegetarian Scottish breakfast dishes                       
• Creative/ Signature breakfast dishes

Game Workshop

We know that visitors to Scotl and want to taste the distinctive cuisine they associate with the country itself. Within Scotland we have a wonderful game larder, however
visitors rarely find it on the menu.

The themes for this workshop are:

• Venison
• Pheasant and other game birds
• Smoked game

'Traditional Scottish dishes with a modern touch' Workshop
In this year of The Homecoming it is more important than
ever to offer visitors the dishes that represent our culture
and heritage. Our chefs have taken traditional Scottish dishes
and brought them into the 21st vcentury.
Our chefs and themes for this workshop are:

• Christopher Trotter, demonstrating vegetarian dishes
• Nichola Fletcher, demonstrating fish dishes
• Graham Harvey, demonstrating meat dishes

 

If you want more information about these workshops and/or future workshops, contact info@foodtourismscotland.com