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Scotland Magazine News

Mon 20 Feb 2012

Best 'Chippy Chip's in Scotland Revealed

Its official, Moores Chip Shop, Dumfries and Galloway has the ‘Best Chippy Chips’ in Scotland, as voted for by the public in the Choice Chip Awards for Chip Week.

The Castle Douglas based shop was frying high after being awarded the prestigious title in a competition to celebrate Chip Week 2012, which starts today (20-26 February), and recognises and rewards the quality chips being served by shops in nine different regions.

Chip fans voted in their thousands in the Choice Chip Awards, with over 400 chip shops across the country involved and 35,000 votes received at http://www.chips.lovepotatoes.co.uk and through voting cards placed in shops. Moores Chip Shop topped the league table for fryers in Scotland.

Andrew Moore and his team were over the moon with the award. Andrew said: “It’s unbelievable and I can’t thank our customers enough for voting for us. It really makes me proud to say we’ve got the best chippy chips in Scotland!”

Kate Cox, Chip Week campaign manager for Potato Council, said: “Chip Week is a celebration of the Nation’s love of chips and as we suspected people are very passionate about their chips, hence why the Choice Chip Awards have been so incredibly popular, with over 35,000 eager chip lovers voting to put their favourite chip shop on the map.

“This has been a great start to Chip Week 2012, which will see celebrations taking place in shops, pubs, restaurants and retailers across the country. I’m sure that their customers will continue to support them during Chip Week”.

For more information regarding Chip Week visit http://www.chips.lovepotatoes.co.uk
 
Mon 13 Feb 2012

First Phylum Feast For Scots Foodies

Stravaigin in Glasgow will become the first restaurant in Scotland to host a Phylum feast later this month.

Phylum feasts pay tribute to Charles Darwin by including as many different species as possible during a single meal.

A Phylum is part of the scientific classification system for the living world and groups together organisms of a similar body plan.

Chefs at Stravaigin have managed to include over 50 different species of flora and fauna in the feast. The five course meal includes primordial soup, molluscs, ungulates, crustaceans, beetles and is finished with hunter gather pie and after dinner mints made with ants.

The feast at the Gibson Street restaurant on Thursday 23rd February, will mark Darwin’s birthday which falls this month.

A renowned gourmet, Darwin presided over the Glutton Club at Cambridge, a weekly meeting of like minded individuals, who tried to sample as many different animals as possible.

In 1831, Darwin set sail on The Beagle, on a five year journey that helped form his theory of evolution by natural selection. During the excursion, his adventurous appetite saw him eating armadillos, puma, iguana and giant tortoise.

Carol Wright, of Stravaigin, said, “The glutton club sounded an extraordinary experience and we wanted to bring a little bit of Darwin’s sense of adventure to the restaurant this month.”

Tickets cost £32.95. For more information, visit http://www.stravaigin.co.uk.