Food Heritage Scotland

Our people, our landscape, our communities and our history have all shaped our nation’s larder.

The food and drink that nourishes our nation may have changed across decades and centuries but Scottish food and drink remains an important part of our everyday lives, and an essential ingredient in the experience of visitors to our country.

Share Your Food Stories

We are on a search to find Scotland’s most enticing, most delicious and most inspiring food and drink stories. We want to hear about your hidden gems and your treasured memories; your favourite picnic spots and your local food heroes. We invite you to share with us family recipes, photos of your most loved dishes or the food and drink experience you'd most recommend to visitors.

Your Memories & Your Recipes

We are particularly interested in stories about locally produced food and drink, today and in the past, as they are remembered by Scotland’s people. We want to uncover Scotland’s food and drink stories and share them with new audiences. In the longer term we hope to create a repository of narrative and images, and we’d love your food stories, memories, recipes and experiences to be part of that.

Preparing for the Year of Scotland’s Stories

Our aim is to make Scotland’s rich and diverse food heritage accessible and valued in the lead-in to 2022, the Year of Scotland’s Stories. We also want to capture Scotland’s food and drink stories to unlock our country’s food tourism potential, to help our food, drink and tourism industries recover from the impact of coronavirus.