Scran season 8: Winners of the Scotland Food and Drink Excellence Awards - including Scotland’s ‘best pie’

The latest episode of our podcast Scran is now live.

On this special bonus episode of Scran we are looking back to the Scottish Food and Drink Excellence awards which took place in Glasgow a few weeks back. The Excellence Awards shine a light on the incredible businesses that call Scotland home.  

Underpinned by people, passion, and perseverance, it is an opportunity to toast the industry’s fantastic achievements over the past year, whilst looking to the future and supporting the next wave of innovation and creativity.

Hayley Wilkes of WeeCOOK and her two awards.

Rosalind is joined by three of the award winners on this episode to learn more about their businesses and how awards can impact them.

First up Rosalind speaks to Hayley Wilkes of WeeCOOK followed by Andrew Wilson of Young Spirits and Andrew Rowley of Ballintaggart.

You can find more information about the awards and the winners here.

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Known for cake making, experimental jam recipes, Champagne, whisky and gin drinking (and the inability to cook Gnocchi), Rosalind is the Food and Drink Editor and whisky writer for The Scotsman, as well as hosting Scran, The Scotsman's food and drink podcast.
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