A Recipe for Success - Coffee Makers and Prize Winning Haggis
I’m in shock at the moment, I was cleaning the missus’s pride and joy, her DeLonghi Magnifica coffee making machine, and it managed to get mangled it in a way the manufacturers might has said was inventive. So I’ll be forming an orderly queue at the telephone for when they open on this grey Monday morning. They pick them up and take them back to the repair shop for fixing, no roving engineers for them, I sincerely hope it can be fixed in my case that it isn’t for embalming and that the poor thing can be nursed back to full coffee making health. It’s the problem with modern technology that when it goes wrong it goes catastrophically wrong at a stratospheric price. I expect you know that sinking feeling when something expensive has hit the bumpers and leaves you with that sinking feeling last felt by the Titanic. Oh deary me!
In my dismal state of reflection at the coffee maker I imagine the dismay of haggis makers in the nation when a haggis, made by a Southampton butchers won at the World Charcuterie Awards. They gained both a gold medal and best in class. Though it has to be said the judges included charcuterie buyers from Selfridges, Harrods and Fortnum & Mason, those distinctively English retailers. Although the recipe had been culled from Scotland and refined by reference to a Scottish ‘haggis grandmaster,’ but it’s a wound though, even if it is a flesh wound.
This year saw also a newcomer take first place in the inaugural Haggis World Championship. They have been running a Scottish haggis championship for some 30 years, but decided it was to be for the world this year, not just the nation. But with no outlanders entering the championship, some 70 Scottish Haggis makers battled it out for the much vaunted prize and it went to a butcher from North Lanarkshire whose 40 year old recipe tickled the right palates and rocked right the judges.
Now we here at James Pirie have had the same recipe for success since 1890 and we’ve tried never to deviate from it ever since. And you can raise a glass with that prize winning Scottish haggis with the delightful Skye 6 Large Tumblers in a Royal Scot Crystal which just happen to be on special offer. The Skye glass is an elegant hand cut wine suite with a modern, but timeless style. It’s also beautifully boxed in luxury charcoal grey and black satin lined presentation boxes. Buy it now and it’ll save you £135. Probably the cost of my fixing the coffee maker!
https://www.jamespirie.com/whisky-gifts/skye-box-of-6-large-tumblers.html
