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Food Festival promises a feast of fun

Published 8 Aug 2011 09:30

FROM a ready-steady-cook challenge featuring expert local chefs to whisky tastings, gourmet dinners and a special farmers market, this year's East Renfrewshire Food Festival (August 27 to September 2) is shaping up to be the best yet.

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  Holy Whole Foods Batman

  WHOLE Foods Market, the world's leading natural and organic foods supermarket, will open a new 22,000 square-foot store, the grocer's first in Scotland, on Fenwick Road in Giffnock late this year.

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  The light music of Whisky falling into a glass

  ANGUS Ferguson is a man of 'persistent and relentless determination' - a character trait which has stood him in good stead when sourcing specialities for his hugely successful niche business, the liquid deli, Demijohn.

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  The Taste of Spain

  GORDON Craig enjoyed Spain so much that when he came back to Scotland he decided to bring a flavour of it with him, and to share it, through the delightful Tinto Tapas Bars.

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  Waitrose opens Largest Scottish Store

  Waitrose opened its fourth and largest Scottish store, the supermarket arm of the John Lewis Partnership also announced plans for a fifth shop in Scotland, in Helensburgh.