Instead of buying a ready-made hamper for someone for this Christmas, you could make up your own hamper with foods from Fife. Ardross Farm Shop, near Elie in Fife is a nice place to visit anyway, and their home-made steak pie would be great for a New Year’s Day dinner, or a ham on the bone from Puddledub Pork in Auchtertool (£42) would go down well on Boxing Day. Balance
Camilla & Tom Mitchell of Puddledub Pork say: ‘All of our Pork is hung for up to 10 days which allows the flavour to develop fully and help us produce truly marvellous pork to be enjoyed. Our pigs are bred for succulence and flavoursome pork. We use a cross breed of the traditional large white and landrace pig which we have bred with a Duroc. The duroc is compared to
Mike Small started the Fife Diet in 2007, a campaign to eat locally sourced food. Forty years ago he would have had his work cut out; chips, white bread, macaroni cheese pies, scotch pies topped with baked beans and mashed potato, and everything cooked with cloak of batter or pastry. Fast forward to 2011 and the Fife Diet is not a sitcom joke but a healthy, tasty selection of organic