A Taste of Fife at BBC Good Food Show Scotland

Fife will be showcasing the rich quality, originality and diversity of its homegrown produce at this weekend's BBC Good Food Show Scotland.

Starting today (Friday, 21 October) and running until Sunday at the SECC in Glasgow, this prestigious event celebrates the best of Scottish food and drink.

Fife will be well-represented by Vivien Collie, director of Fife Food Network and leader of Slow Food Fife and Christopher Trotter, Fife’s food ambassador. Both will be involved with the Slow Food UK stand.

The Fife Food Network promotes good quality food and drink experiences in Fife and beyond by developing links between local food and the area's heritage, environment, economy and people.

Vivien is a champion for locally-sourced produce and knows that food plays a huge part in Fife’s visitor experience: "Good quality, fresh, local food can enhance a holiday or a visit and is an important factor in choosing where to go," she says.

"Fife recognises this and has an abundance of farmers’ markets and farm shops selling fresh, seasonal, locally-sourced produce.

"The BBC Good Food Show is the perfect platform to show off, and raise awareness of, Fife’s outstanding food product.

"With two Michelin-starred restaurants topping a long list of outstanding places to eat, Fife really does present an excellent, year-round visitor destination."

Fife food ambassador, Christopher Trotter, will be cooking pheasant and demonstrating the wide variety of Fife produce. Jane Stewart from St Andrews Farmhouse Cheese Company will also be there with her award-winning Anster cheeses.

Meanwhile, Fletchers of Auchtermuchty and its "seriously good venison" are at Stand SF12, while Woodmill Shootings joins the new Producers' Bursary Award Pavilion with its delicious salamis.

Kirkcaldy’s The Just Slate Company will present a selection of its bespoke slate tableware, and Christopher Trotter's son, Byam, can be found in the Farmers’ Market area with his Trotter’s independent condiments.

Christopher has a passion for working with ingredients grown, produced and sourced locally in Fife, and says: "I believe there is no better larder than Fife for homegrown, home-produced fresh fruit, meat and vegetables and the BBC Good Food Show is an ideal opportunity to promote a taste of Fife.

"As Fife food ambassador I am always looking for the chance to praise Fife’s food and I can personally recommend Fletchers' excellent free-range venison, Jane Stewart’s traditional creamy white, crumbly Anster cheese, and Steve Wade’s Woodmill salamis made from roe deer and pheasant."

Christopher is a regular contributor to BBC Radio Scotland’s Kitchen Café and, if you can’t make it to Glasgow, he’ll be recording a special Good Food Show programme which can be heard on Sunday, 23 October at 3pm or on Wednesday, 26 October at 1.15pm on BBC Radio Scotland.

Promoting Fife is a marketing initiative managed by Fife Council which aims to raise and increase awareness, locally, nationally and globally, of Fife’s credentials as a great place to live, work, visit and invest.

Looking to source produce from Fife? Use Scotland Food & Drink's Buyers' Guide.

More information:

Christopher Trotter.

Fletchers of Auchtermuchty.

Woodmill Shootings.

St Andrews Farmhouse Cheese Company.

Slow Food Fife.

Fife Food Network.

BBC Good Food Show Scotland.

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