Foodie events a star attraction at Royal Highland Show

Cookery demonstrations will be an attraction at the Royal Highland Show.

DAILY cookery demonstrations celebrating the food of Scotland will be one of the highlights at the year’s Royal Highland Show in Edinburgh.

From haute cuisine to haggis, shortbread to seafood, food lovers will be spoiled for choice when they browse the menu of events for this year’s Scotland Food & Drink Theatre.

The foodie events are sure to be an attraction for the very many people who make their way from the Far North for the annual show.

With the theme "A Celebration of Scotland" and under the supervision of Wendy Barrie, writer, broadcaster, demonstrator and director of the award-winning Scottish Food Guide, the theatre will stage nine demonstration sessions daily over the four days of the show.

One of the highlights will be a Friday slot for Lady Claire Macdonald, of the Michelin-starred Kinloch Lodge on the Isle of Skye. A winner of the Royal Highland and Agricultural Society Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006, Lady Claire is a passionate advocate of seasonal food from Scotland.

Other top chefs appearing include Tom Lewis, proprietor of Monachyle Mhor at Balquhidder, Paul Wedgwood, from his eponymous restaurant in Edinburgh, the "kilted chef" Craig Wilson, proprietor of the Green Restaurant at Udny Green in Aberdeenshire, and Mikey Prentice from the First Coast bistro in the West of Edinburgh.

The Scotland Food & Drink Theatre is located at the north end of the Food & Drink Hall which features around 100 companies displaying the best of Scottish produce and speciality foods.

The Royal Highland Show, sponsored by the Royal Bank of Scotland, takes place at the Royal Highland Centre, Ingliston, Edinburgh, from June 23 to 26.