Sep 29, 2026 · 29 min · 10 segments
In this episode we are joined by one of Scotland’s leading food history writers, Peter Gilchrist. Peter won the Guild of Food Writers’ Best Newcomer for 2024 and is the co-host of the Scottish Food…
Peter GilchristGuest
Ruth GrayHost
And this year in March was the first kind of submission and they're going to do it annually going forward.
And in looking through that, there was like, there's all this butteries and rowies, which are like the North-East role.
But then the majority of the intangible heritage was other things that you might suspect of Scotland.
We're absolutely right that they are there, but there is also a massive space of working class pedestrian culture that could be recognised.
It actually just needs, number one, people who leave the country and don't find things elsewhere and reporting back, that tells us what our culture is.
You have to break your place relationship to identify what is special about it.
I began to hear people talking about morning rolls a lot and actually also about water and about our pubs and there's lots of things that people begin to bring back to us that we're not celebrating or not even in the most basic way recognising that it's culture, recognising that it has history and recognising that it's important to us
And, you know, when I've spoken to people about coming to meet you and talk about the morning rule, people's eyes are lighting up.
And this year in March was the first kind of submission and they're going to do it annually going forward.
And in looking through that, there was like, there's all this butteries and rowies, which are like the North-East role.
But then the majority of the intangible heritage was other things that you might suspect of Scotland.
We're absolutely right that they are there, but there is also a massive space of working class pedestrian culture that could be recognised.
It actually just needs, number one, people who leave the country and don't find things elsewhere and reporting back, that tells us what our culture is.
You have to break your place relationship to identify what is special about it.
I began to hear people talking about morning rolls a lot and actually also about water and about our pubs and there's lots of things that people begin to bring back to us that we're not celebrating or not even in the most basic way recognising that it's culture, recognising that it has history and recognising that it's important to us
And, you know, when I've spoken to people about coming to meet you and talk about the morning rule, people's eyes are lighting up.
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