Scotland Magazine author Charles MacLean

All in the Game

CHARLES MACLEAN AND A PANEL OF TASTERS GET THEIR TEETH INTO SOME SMOKED VENISON

Venison – the dark, gamey flesh of the Red Deer – tended to be reserved for the gentry in days gone by. Deer forests were the provinces of kings; great hunts were organised by chiefs and nobles – such as that attended by the English traveller John Taylor in 1618, laid on by the Earl of Mar (accompan...

Scottish Tastings from Issue 2 published on 5/6/2002