FEAST 2012: A Celebration of Regional scottish Food

The Producers

From cupcakes to fruit ice and from Edinburgh gin to Scotch whisky – it’s all going on at FEAST 2012.

FEAST 2012 celebrates all that is good about Scotland’s food and drink. What better way to celebrate Scotland’s rich larder than to invite some of Scotland’s best and most innovative local producers to promote their products. You’ll have the opportunity to taste many of the food and drink products, but don’t forget your wallet as you may wish to make some purchases to take home.

 Crème de la Cupcake (Midlothian)

Crème de la Cupcake is a bespoke cupcakery based in Midlothian. It creates individual, delicious cupcakes for events such as weddings, children's parties and christenings and even tea-breaks! It offers an ever expanding range of flavours and it even does seasonal cupcakes for Christmas, Mother's day, Easter, Halloween and Valentine's Day.

Crème de la Cupcake uses only the finest ingredients: it finishes the cupcakes with butter cream as this best compliments the soft sponge of its cupcakes. The company is also now branching into other delicious bakery goodies such as peanut butter biscuits, oaties and brownies. http://www.creme-de-la-cupcake.co.uk/

http://www.cairngormbrewery.com/Ice Delight , Belhaven Fruit Farm (Dunbar, East Lothian)

Fat-Free, Dairy-Free, and Full of Fruit!

Belhaven Fruit Farm has blended its home-grown Scottish fruit with an authentic Italian recipe to create a unique, luxuriously creamy dessert as healthy and tasty as real fruit.

Following a trip to Tuscany in 2007, the company came up with an outstanding new product called Fruit Ice. Amazingly, Fruit Ice was tastier than all the other ice-creams the team had tried, and while other traditional recipes relied on dairy products, Fruit Ice was simply based on fresh fruit blended to an authentic Italian recipe and churned to give a rich creamy texture. Where other ice-creams struggled with high calorie and fat contents, Belhaven had created a fat-free, dairy-free, and gluten-free dessert with a spectacular fruity flavour and none of the guilt!

In 2010 Belhaven launched its new brand; 'IceDelight', the fruity, fat-free iced dessert. Researchers from Queen Margaret University studied the health benefits to be had from eating IceDelight. The results were startling - the product kept all the vitamin and antioxidant properties of the real fruit and could even be counted as one of your 'five-a-day'. IceDelight comes in four delicious flavours: raspberry, strawberry, blackcurrant, and lemon. Each serving has less than 90 calories. http://www.belhavenfruitfarm.co.uk/ice-delight.aspx

Supernature cold pressed rapeseed oil (Midlothian)

Supernature cold pressed rapeseed oil is produced, harvested and bottled at Carrington Barns, a traditional family run farm in Midlothian. Supernature is produced from spring oil-seed rape, a fast growing crop that is grown sustainably, without using herbicides or fungicides. Once harvested, the seed is gently cold-pressed, and then hand-bottled at the farm’s sterile bottling room.

Packed with nutrients, it has a delightful buttery taste that makes it perfect for everything from salad dressings and dips to roasting and baking. It is a great-tasting, healthy, local alternative to imported olive oil! www.supernature.uk.com

Craigie’s Fruit Farm (based at West Craigie, outside Kirkliston)

West Craigie is a 260 acre arable farm which is run by the Sinclair family and a growing team of staff. As well as growing crops for you to pick, Craigie’s sell an excellent range of ready picked fruits and vegetables. This beautiful farm, which offers customers views over the Forth, has an indoor and outdoor café, butchery, deli, and outdoor children’s play area. Craigie’s butchery concentrates on high-quality fresh meat from small-scale local producers and the deli offers produce from a wider range of Scottish suppliers as well as jam, chutney and marmalades made from produce grown on the farm. www.craigies.co.uk

 Peelham Farm Produce (Foulden, Berwickshire, Scottish Borders)

Peelham is a sustainable, organic mixed farm with its own butchery. The organic farm shop sells its own rare breed pork, lamb and field grazed veal. The farm, which produces quality products from its farm with its own electricity, sells directly to both wholesale and retail customers.

The farm philosophy is sustainable self-reliance and the management is committed to animal welfare, environmental renewal and habitat restoration. To achieve its aspirations for product quality and integrity, Peelham relies on British Native Breeds, growing their animal feeds and foraging and operating an open farm policy for their customers. Their excellent range of meats can be purchased via their website: http://www.peelham.co.uk

Findlay’s Butchers (Portobello, Edinburgh)

Findlay’s Butchers is a family run independent company that has sold and produced the finest of meats since 1974. It is renowned for its award winning products and holds titles for its haggis, black pudding, sausages and bacon.

All of Findlay’s cattle are selected from farms in Speyside and are free range and naturally fed. They are selected personally by Mr Findlay and inspected for animal safety and husbandry. The cattle are then hung for a period of no less than two weeks to mature the meat and enhance the flavour. Findlay’s pork is selected from Hillfoot Farm in Hawick that rears free range animals which are used for all its sausages and bacon. All of its lambs are selected from farms in the Scottish Borders.

Over recent years, Findlay’s has not only been successful in winning many awards, it has also featured in TV appearances, both local and national including Rick Steins Food Heroes and Ainsley Harriot’s ‘50 Things to Eat Before You Die’. It has also been nominated as a Local Food Hero for the past 3 years and supplies a number of highly reputed establishments from the Witchery in Edinburgh to the Grosvenor Hotel in Mayfair, London. http://www.findlayofportobello.co.uk/

Yokoyama Sushi (Edinburgh)

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