This year is Scotland’s year of Food and Drink. The country is famed for its natural larder, award-winning restaurants and drinks and many other taste sensations. How many of these 27 must-tastes will you tick off in 2015?

• Eat a real Arbroath Smokie.
• Suck on a Soor Ploome (that’s a bright green, sour plum flavoured boiled sweet)
• Enjoy wild Scottish game, especially venison, cooked by an expert chef.
• Treat yourself to a Fisher and Donaldson custard slice in St Andrews
• Make a pilgrimage to the Isle of Skye, home to globally acclaimed restaurants such as the Michelin starred The Three Chimneys.
• Cook over a campfire on a remote beach.
• Visit a malt whisky distillery – or make the journey to Islay, the island home of many whiskies.
• Eat an Ashvale Whale (a 1lb cod fillet from the Ashvale chip shops in Aberdeen, Brechin, Dundee, Elgin, Ellon and Inverurie)
• Dine on the traditional Scottish dish of haggis, neeps and tatties (it doesn’t need to be a Burns Supper to enjoy this meal.)
• Fish for salmon in the Tweed
• Have an ice-cream at Luca’s in Musselburgh or Nardini’s in Larg
• Buy coffee and olive oil at Valvona and Crolla, Edinburgh.
• Toast the year of Food & Drink with cocktails at Rogano, Glasgow’s oldest restaurant.
• Pop a square of Scottish tablet into your mouth and let it melt in all its sugary wonderfulness.
• Book a table for two at the Wee Curry Shop in Glasgow.
• Eat a deep-fried Mars Bar (ask a friendly chip shop to batter and fry one for you).
• Enjoy beautifully cooked fresh scallops and langoustines on Mull at Cafe Fish.
• Pick wild berries in Perthshire.
• Then enjoy a tipple or two of Cairn o’ Mohr wine made from these very berries. There are many other fruit wines and ciders to try, too, at the Perthshire winery.
• Eat a genuine Aberdeen buttery in Aberdeenshire.
• Ask a Scot to say Curly Wurly and hear how they deliciously roll their Rs.
• Queue up for fish and chips at the atmospheric harbour in Anstruther, Fife, then feast on the taste sensation of a “fish supper” from the award-winning Anstruther Fish Bar.
• Take afternoon tea at Gleneagles.
• Order a full Scottish breakfast, including haggis!
• Make the trip to Castle Douglas, in Dumfries & Galloway, a designated Food Town boasting some 50 food and drink outlets
• Forage for Scottish wild food with an expert.
• Take a picnic to the shores of Loch Lomond or climb a nearby hill for an outdoors meal with spectacular views.

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