The Talisker Skye and Lochalsh Food and Drink Festival 2001
| The Talisker Skye and Lochalsh Food and Drink Festival 2001 | |
| 25 July 2001 The Talisker Skye and Lochalsh Food and Drink Festival 2001, 20th – 23rd September, promises to be an energising, exuberant weekend of great food, superb locations, traditional music and hospitality at its best. Over the last two years, the Skye and Lochalsh Food and Drink Festival has established the festival as a superb opportunity to savour an exceptional food and drink experience, celebrating fresh local produce in a friendly and harmonious atmosphere, within a spectacular natural environment. “Skye and Lochalsh produces some of the best quality food in the world, from this scenic north west corner of Scotland - heather-reared lamb, traditional highland beef, prawns and lobsters straight from the creel, hand made cheeses, fresh fragrant herbs, delicious locally grown vegetables and organic salad leaves, to list but a few. With a local food initiative and around twenty local establishments committed to a Taste of Scotland, through their imaginative use of fresh, skilfully prepared and presented Scottish produce, the festival provides an opportunity to promote not only a taste of Scotland, but a distinctive flavour of Skye and Lochalsh”, explained Carole Inglis, food and drink development manager for SALE. Visitors and locals alike can enjoy the spectacle of floodlit Eilean Donan castle while savouring great food and a reeling ceilidh sponsored by Taste of Scotland. "We are delighted to be working with Skye and Lochalsh Enterprise on the 2001 Skye and Lochalsh Food Festival. This festival is an excellent example of how a quality initiative brings together the caterer, the supplier and the visitor to the mutual benefit of all. It is a most excellent initiative and one with which we are proud to be associated”, said Amanda Clark, chief executive of Taste of Scotland. The best of Gaelic culture will be found by stopping for a ‘strupag’ at the brilliant Plockton Village Tea, showing that some of the best traditions are alive and well in the area and rounded off with a Highland Banquet at Columba 1400. Saturday sets out to be a day for the family – a local farmers’ market in Portree, Broadford’s seafood celebration in the afternoon and barbecue at Sligachan’s Isle of Skye Real Ale Festival in the evening. Sunday will be a day of relaxation – a quiet cruise, or a guided mushroom walk through the autumn-coloured castle woods of Dunvegan followed by a leisurely lunch or a Classic Malts dinner in the evening? Talisker Distillery manager, Alastair Robertson said, “We are delighted to be the main sponsor for the Skye and Lochalsh Food and Drink Festival. The dinner is a great opportunity for us to share our knowledge of the six Classic Malts by matching each of them to a course of excellent quality local produce from Skye and Lochalsh ”. Talisker Skye and Lochalsh Food and Drink Festival aims to whet the appetite for a return visit and longer stay for visitors, with an opportunity for locals to take time to taste the difference of fresh quality local food that is simply the best. Frequent visitor, Nick Nairn, and keen advocate of the area’s fresh, local produce comments, ‘I think you will find Skye and Lochalsh is an area which attaches great importance to its natural harvests and unique environment, but it also has an indefinable quality which makes it quite unlike any other part of the planet, and quite definitely one of the best. Get out there and enjoy it.’ The Talisker Skye and Lochalsh Food and Drink Festival 2001 is supported by Skye and Lochalsh Enterprise, Talisker Distillery, Highland Council and Highlands of Scotland Tourist Board. For more details of the Talisker Skye and Lochalsh Food and Drink Festival 2001, contact | |