Food & Beverage - Spread upon the water
Spread upon the water
“Some hae meat and canna eat, And some wad eat that want it: But we hae meat and we can eat And sae the Lord be thankit”
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t’s more than 300 years since those words were first spoken. Although attributed to Robert Burns the Selkirk Grace, as it has become known, was around for at least a century before Scotland’s national poet made it globally famous.
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And, today more than ever, those words couldn’t be more accurate. Scotland’s larder is teeming with produce unrivalled anywhere else in the world.
Scotland’s food and drink sector is booming! Home grown consumers and overseas connoisseurs continue to demand world-class Scottish produce on menus.
Forget the negative stereotypes of Scots living on a diet of porridge, haggis and deep fried Mars Bars because the truth couldn’t be any further from the fiction.
Sales of Scottish products are now worth more than £15billion year to the economy and the sector is now the country’s biggest employer.
