The Sustainable Restaurant Association – Ingredients for Success

The SRA sustainable restaurant association Edinburgh event

The SRA sustainable restaurant association Edinburgh event We attended Ingredients for Success, an event to celebrate sustainable Scottish food. The Sustainable Restaurant Association encourages all restaurants to get Sustainability Rated and show that they’re walking the walk, as well as talking the talk.

 

The SRA sustainable restaurant association Edinburgh event
Menu created with ingredients from the nights guests.

A wealth of suppliers attended the event at The Scottish Café in Edinburgh including IQ Chocolate, Ochil Foods, Phantassie vegetables, Innis & Gunn the brewers, Cuddybridge Apple Juice, Carroll’s Heritage Potatoes, Summer Harvest Oils, Isle of Skye Sea Salt and Diageo.

 

 

 

 

 

The SRA sustainable restaurant association Edinburgh event
MSP Richard Lochead
© The Sustainable Restaurant Association

As well as the suppliers,  we heard four speakers who have a shared love of food, Richard Lochhead, Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, James Withers, Chief Executive of Scotland Food and Drink, Carina Contini of The Scottish Café and Guy Grieve who runs Ethical Shellfish Company. All spoke with a passion that Scotland has amazing resources which should be utilised but not at an environmental cost.

 

 

 

The SRA sustainable restaurant association Edinburgh event
Christina Contini
© The Sustainable Restaurant Association

It was terrific to be able to be surrounds and listen to so many people at the heart of Scotland’s food industry and know that they are as passionate about our produce and aware of our job to look after Scotland’s garden.

 

Scotland’s Year of Food and Drink in 2015 can’t come soon enough!

 

 

 

 

The SRA sustainable restaurant association Edinburgh event
MSP Richard Lochead and Cuddybridge Juice

 

The SRA sustainable restaurant association Edinburgh event
Carroll’s Heritage Potatoes

 

The SRA sustainable restaurant association Edinburgh event
Pelham Farm awards and meats

 

The SRA sustainable restaurant association Edinburgh event
Delicious sustainable Scottish food
Emma

Emma

Hello!

I am Emma and with my husband Mark write Foodie Explorers, which is a food and travel website.

I am a member of the Guild of Food Writers and British Guild of Travel Writers.

We have a wide range of judging experience covering products, hotels and have judged, for example, for Great Taste Awards and Scottish Baker of the Year.

Along the way Mark gained WSET Level 2 in Wine and I have WSET Level 2 in Spirits as well as picking up an award with The Scotsman Food and Drink Awards.    

Usually I can be found sleeping beside a cat.

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