2 results for tag: Year of Natural Scotland


2 festive gifts – 1 luxury package: The launch of ‘Natural Scotland’ hampers 2013

The Champagne has been popped! Today, we launched our 2013 luxury festive hampers in tribute to Visit Scotland's 2013 'Year of Natural Scotland'. But how did we set about creating that perfect gift for your friends, family or clients?It certainly helped that when I sat down with our partners for this project, the supremely talented floral designer Nicole Dalby of Glasgow based 'Flowers and Design' that we were most definitely choosing from the same menu.  For starters we both wanted to create a unique collection that hadn't been offered before; a fusion of fine foods and floral design, giving great value by presenting 2 gifts in 1 luxury package.Â...

Cheese from a plant? Now that’s clever.

Tomatoes grow underground, cheese comes from plants and fish fingers are made of chicken.Well, that is according to a large number of the 27,500 children who were recently surveyed by the British Nutrition Foundation (BNF).There were certainly a few gasps of horror here at Tasting Scotland’s HQ and we decided we needed to do something to tie in with 2013 being the Year of Natural Scotland and to help the BNF re-engage children with the origins of their food and the nutritional aspects of eating up their greens, or oranges or reds, for that matter.The survey also reported that 21% of primary children and 18% of secondary school children had never ...