Cookery students and Thurso Grows to serve up Burns celebration
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A collaboration between budding chefs and a local food initiative is cooking up a celebration of Scotland's national bard.
SVQ2 cookery students at North Highland College are joining forces with Thurso Grows to create a pop-up restaurant in the Thurso Community Café, formerly Tempest, for the Ode to Caithness Burns Supper.
The initiative follows on from events in October last year when Thurso Grows worked with the students to focus on food waste in an industrial kitchen. After the success of these, the logical next step was to create a pop-up restaurant to put the theory into practice.
The three-course Burns supper will be served on January 23, when there will be a Thurso Grows spin on the entertainment.
Sharon Dismore, Thurso Grows project co-ordinator, is looking forward to the event.
She said: “I am very excited to be co-running this pop-up restaurant which will showcase local food and how the climate impact of food can be reduced, even in a working kitchen. These are very talented chefs.”
Thurso Grows is a project run by Thurso Community Development Trust and funded by the Climate Challenge Fund. It works with the community through workshops, events and activities to encourage and promote local food growing and production, and the reduction of food waste.
It also runs a community garden at the bottom of Falconer Waters Court for both indoor and outdoor growing, with facilities to hold events, making the garden a teaching and a social space.
The project has many workshops on gardening, composting and upcycling household items coming up throughout the spring. For more information click here.
The Burns supper event is £15 per head for a three-course meal with those attending welcome to bring their own bottle. Booking is essential. For more details and to book, email thursogrows@ThursoCDT.co.uk or book online at www.thursocdt.co.uk/buy
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