Last month Total Food Geeks sought refuge from the cruel, cold weather in the warm wonderland of Cranachan & Crowdie, a recent addition to Edinburgh?s locally-focused food purveyors.
What is Cranachan & Crowdie?
The brainchild of Beth and Fiona, Cranachan & Crowdie resulted from the pair receiving frequent requests from visitors to their Royal Mile self-catered apartment to recommend nearby spots to purchase genuine, quality Scottish food and drink. Open just over six months, the shop has already become popular with tourists and locals alike.
Why do we love them?
What we like about Cranachan & Crowdie is that they are so much more than purveyors of Scottish Food & Drink, they give every shopping experience character with their considered recommendations, wonderful stories and passionate approach.
Cranachan & Crowdie also approach their involvement in the Scottish food and drink industry with great invention ? respecting the traditions of Scottish fare but also trying to develop new and interesting food combinations.
In recent months they?ve even been working with Ann Scott to develop recipes from their products that vistors can make at home, as well as connecting different suppliers to great ingenious and completely new combinations such as Hebridean Sea Salt and Charlotte Flower Chocolate.
For some of Ann?s fantastic Scottish Canape recipes click here.
OUR CRANACHAN CROWDIE TOP PICKS?
Some of our Cranachan & Crowdie favourites?
- Forage infused chocolates such as the very pretty Charlotte Flower Chocolate.
- Huntley Herb Mini Chutneys (we stole the last two boxes!)
- Elderflower Sparkling drink by Cairn O?mhor (first tried during a perfect recent visit to Pomegranate)
The TFG Edinburgh Open Night
During the course of our Open Night for new and passionate foodies we enjoyed sampling everything from shortbread to infused oils, mulled Thistly Cross Ginger Cider and Cairn O?mhor Elderflower non-alcoholic fizz with Edinburgh Raspberry Gin. It was wonderful to meet so many new faces and find even more TFGE kindred spirits!
We would like to thank Beth & Fiona for all of their help in organising such an enjoyable evening. We would also like to thank all of the lovely folks who turned up ? you?ll be seeing a lot more of them on the site in 2013! And don?t just take our word for it? check out the delightfully named Hungry Romantic blog post about the evening here.
NEW YEAR?S DAY EVENT@ CRANACHAN & CROWDIE
Cranachan & Crowdie will be opening their shop from 12noon today, New Year?s Day and offering all their visitors free drinks and, of course, samples of their products!
VACANCY: FOOD & DRINK EVENTS INTERN
Cranachan & Crowdie are looking for an events intern to help then think about 2013 and particularly evening events in Feb and March when it?s far too quiet on the Royal Mile. For more information please email Beth & Fiona on beth.edberg [at] cranachanandcrowdie.com
Photo credit: The lovely Emma at Hungry Romantic who attended the blog ? check her beautiful blog out here.
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About Georgia
To me, food means great comfort, enticement, fun, joy, and almost always making a mess. Edinburgh is my haven; we've enough eateries and food fanatics to keep every waking hour of life deliciously fulfilled. You'll find me discussing the delights of baking, discovering our city's restaurants and devouring homely comforts. I geek out over: culinary events, foodie photos and my grannie's fairy cakes Twitter: @ideaspotting Blog: www.bakenation.com
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