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Books

Nichola Fletchers - Ultimate Venison Cookery

Recipes for game fish, game birds and game meat with a short history of each subject.

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Who Are We?

The Food Trust was established in 1997 by a group of concerned people in Scotland who were worried about the nations diet, and felt that the nation’s true food culture was not being publicly exhibited.

The issues of nutrition, a sustainable agriculture, and environment were also factors, which required an expansion of informed public knowledge and debate.

The founding Directors included businessmen and chefs, academics and farmers, each with a track record of producing and promoting the finest foods from Scotland.

The Directors in 2008 are:

Chairman and Trustee, ARTHUR J A BELL CBE (Hon)FIDM FRSA

"Minister's Son Drinks in 500 Pubs" was the 'Express' headline when politics student Bell co-authored best selling "Complete Edinburgh Pub Guide". Later he co-authored - "A Flavour of Edinburgh" a 1986 guide to Edinburgh restaurants.

In 1973 in New Lanark he and wife Susan set up their mail order business Scotland Direct Ltd. It grew to include clubs like The Scottish Gourmet, Whisky Connnoisseur, Thimble Guild, Coffee Connoisseur, and Great British Beer Club.

Growing business alongside a family of four didn't stop him having a hectic political and active public life. In 1997 he was made CBE and also an Honorary Life Fellow of the Institute of Direct Marketing.

Today in a wheelchair he defies disability by curling, and is chairman of the Scottish Wheel Chair Curling Club, Chairing the Food Trust, and New Lanark Conservation Trust, which restored this UNESCO World Heritage Site. He has recently published a (non-party) paper "The Disablist Society", and this can be found on his blogsite wwq.arthurjabell.com, and Biggar Civic Society. He loves cooking, good malt whiskies, reading and classical music, and savouring Languedoc.

Over the years he has won many awards and has been recognised as one of the direct marketing industry’s leading speakers. To read more please click here.

Vice Chair and Trustee, NICHOLA FLETCHER

Nichola Fletcher leads three lives. She is a designer goldsmith, she runs an upmarket venison business and she is a food writer. For her work with venison, she was nominated for a Slow Food Award and for ‘Best Food Producer’ in the BBC Food and Farming Awards.

She has written five books on the culture, history and cooking of game meats. 35 years’ experience is distilled in ‘Nichola Fletcher’s Ultimate Venison Cookery’ which won a Gourmand World Cookbook Award. She also studies the history and culture of food: ‘Charlemagne’s Tablecloth, a piquant history of feasting’ won a Silver award at Cannes in 2004 and was shortlisted as Best Food Book in the Guild of Food Writers’ Awards.

 

Nichola gives practical workshops, demonstrations, and tutored tastings, and works with the Deer Commission for Scotland to improve the understanding and quality of venison for the table. She lives near Auchtermuchty in Fife.

www.nicholafletcher.com
www.seriouslygoodvenison.co.uk

Treasurer and Trustee ANN SMITH Dip.D MHCIMA

Trained as a therapeutic dietician. She went touring with Oxford & Cambridge Players, worked at Stracathro Hospital Brechin, and then spent some time in the Gambia. She started outside catering for private individuals and events as ‘Town & Country Catering’ with one of the first businesses in that field in Scotland’s capital. Running the food and drink service in the Traverse Theatre, was followed by her own Edinburgh restaurant, winner of many awards. She became a director of Lithgow Hotels, and is former fundraiser for Hospitality Industry Trust Scotland (HIT Scotland). Since retiring Ann has worked both as a volunteer in the Community Council and Village Centre of her local village, and in Scottish Borders Tweeddale’s Community Volunteer Service, Community Safety Panel, and Village Halls Federation.

In addition she has been Treasurer of Food Trust Scotland for seven years. To read more please click here.

Company Secretary and Trustee, MARTIN IRONS

Proprietor of “Martin’s Restaurant” featured for twenty consecutive years in “The Good Food Guide”. Founding vice-chairman of the Edinburgh Restaurateurs Association. As well as free-lance event organising he now spends much of his time raising money for the homeless, from well-fed diners as Scottish Campaign Manager of “StreetSMART”.

  
Director and Trustee, HUMPHREY ERRINGTON

This multi-award winning Clydesdale cheese maker first produced the ewe’s-milk cheese “Lanark Blue” almost thirty years ago. He was elected founding President of European Federation of Natural Dairy Product Makers, and is an active supporter of the “Slowfood Movement”.

www.lanarkblue.com
Director and Trustee, PROFESSOR COLIN T. WHITTEMORE, NDA, BSc, PhD, DSc, FIBiol, FRSE

Educated at Harper Adams Agricultural College, University of Newcastle upon Tyne (with First Class Honours), and completing his doctorate degrees in 1970 and 1990.

Recognised with the Sir John Hammond Prize for scientific contribution to an understanding of nutrition and growth, the Royal Agricultural Society of England Gold Medal for Outstanding Research in Agriculture, Associazione Mignini per lo Svilappo della Zootecnia Oscar della Suinicoltura; Fellowship of the Institute of Biology; David Black Award for innovation in sciences relating to the pig industry; Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Colin is currently Emeritus Professor

of Agriculture & Rural Economy, University of Edinburgh.

  

Over the years he has contributed to many and various committees as member and chair, and Published comprehensively on the subject of livestock sciences and the production of livestock products for human food. To read more on Colin's Career, published works, and committee work click here.

Director and Trustee, Cathy Cursiter

Cathy is a graduate of Glasgow University (French and Russian) and St Andrews University (Spanish) and has been teaching Modern Languages at Loretto for over 10 years.

A west coast Highland background contributed to an appreciation (from a surprisingly early age) of Mallaig kippers, salt herring, rollmops and porridge. Her palate was further developed following a year teaching in France, several months in Spain and a love of travel.

When not golfing or playing bridge, she enjoys entertaining and sampling more of Scotland's natural larder.
 
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