Religion and Ethics Forum
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Sriram on April 04, 2023, 06:58:54 AM
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Hi everyone,
Is this really a delicacy...a national dish... these days?
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/haggis-scotland-secrets/index.html
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Anthony Bourdain loved haggis. But even the late, great American chef, writer and television host recognized that Scotland’s national dish, with its “sinister sheep parts” wrapped in a shroud of mystery and half-invented history, could be a hard sell.
“Don’t let them tell you otherwise, that’s really one of life’s great pleasures,” Bourdain said on one of his gastro-curious pilgrimages to Glasgow. “There is no more unfairly reviled food on Earth than the haggis.”
A mash-up of diced lung, liver and heart mixed with oatmeal, beef suet, onion and assorted spices, haggis was traditionally made by stuffing these raw ingredients into the stomach of a recently slain sheep and boiling the lot to a state of palatability.
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Sriram
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Sriram
Yes it is - and not just for Burns Night either: we had haggis just last week.
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Had haggis before. Liked it. My kind of food. Hard sell? I don't know. If it had come from France or Italy and had a fancy name, people around the world might well rave about it. Same goes for the humble steak and kidney pie.
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Hi everyone,
Is this really a delicacy...a national dish... these days?
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/haggis-scotland-secrets/index.html
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Anthony Bourdain loved haggis. But even the late, great American chef, writer and television host recognized that Scotland’s national dish, with its “sinister sheep parts” wrapped in a shroud of mystery and half-invented history, could be a hard sell.
“Don’t let them tell you otherwise, that’s really one of life’s great pleasures,” Bourdain said on one of his gastro-curious pilgrimages to Glasgow. “There is no more unfairly reviled food on Earth than the haggis.”
A mash-up of diced lung, liver and heart mixed with oatmeal, beef suet, onion and assorted spices, haggis was traditionally made by stuffing these raw ingredients into the stomach of a recently slain sheep and boiling the lot to a state of palatability.
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Sriram
I like the vegetarian option. Never been brave enough to try the original.
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I like the vegetarian option. Never been brave enough to try the original.
Is there such a thing as a vegetarian haggis? ???
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Is there such a thing as a vegetarian haggis? ???
https://scottishscran.com/vegetarian-haggis-recipe
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I think it's been an option for every cooked breakfast I've had at a hotel in Scotland. If you hadn't been told, you wouldn't know which bits of offal are in haggis.