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Second Shetland Food Festival Tickles Palates

Following the success of the first Shetland Food Festival last year, the 2009 event began on Friday 2 October and runs until Sunday 11 October.

The islands produce superb food from land and sea, including succulent lamb, many kinds of fish and shellfish, the sought-after Shetland Black potato and such delicacies as crisp seawater oatcakes and the enticing ‘puffin poo’. The Festival is intended to celebrate all of this through demonstrations by celebrity chefs, a producers’ market, evening sessions featuring music and stories and a reprise of last year’s hugely successful bannock-making workshops.

New for 2009, and very much the centre of attention on the first weekend, has been ‘Ready, Steady, Shetland’, a local version of the television programme, Ready Steady Cook! Many local eateries will be putting even more emphasis than usual on Shetland ingredients and traditional recipes.

Ronnie Eunson, a producer of organic Shetland lamb, keeps a close eye on its preparation.

Published: 01/10/2009

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