Despite coming rather early in the year for Scottish jam makers, this week is a well intentioned effort to re-popularise the art and craft of jam making. Nowadays, commercial jam has become one of those products which has suffered the traditional British dumbing-down process caused by our food industry’s insistence that customers want only the cheapest food. The proliferation of cheap, sugary jams has devalued jam. Jam Week is an opportunity to reverse this situation.

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Hopetoun, Scotland’s finest stately home situated on the outskirts of Edinburgh, is extending the availability of produce reared on its farms and estate with the launch of a new Farm Shop opening on 27th May 2011. With generations of expertise in producing premier quality meat, game and poultry, Hopetoun is creating an exquisite food experience at a purpose-built destination adjacent to New Hopetoun Gardens.

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Saadia Usmani from Edinburgh has been chosen to become a ‘Philly Local Hero’ – and to represent Scotland with her very own delicious recipe for Philadelphia, the UK’s number one cream cheese.

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The British Trout Association has created a dreamy recipe guaranteed to tug on the heart strings this Valentine’s Day. Inspired by Italy – the home of romance – this Smoked Trout Cannelloni dish will be sure to impress. One of the most popular pasta dishes, cannelloni usually has a meat and tomato filling, but smoked trout makes a delicious change in this healthy version especially when served with a green salad.

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