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Saturday, July 22, 2006

Going Gentle Like haggis. All good things must come to an end. Some day in August, this blog will come up for renewal and I will decline, ending a 4 year love/hate relationship with Salon blogs and Radio Userland. We’ve made shinkenspeck, we’ve made goetta,  we even made a friggin’ turducken. Some of that I might have done anyway, but some got made just so I could post pictures here. There were times I posted every single day and times I didn’t post for a month. In 4 years, I have been to Korea once, China twice, and Japan 5 times. I posted pictures of each trip and learned a lot about food I didn’t know before. I’m writing this now because I don’t know when Radio Userland will turn out the lights and I won’t be able to post anymore. I’ll do another Chef On A Shoestring replay tomorrow (brie soufflé, horseradish crusted salmon, some torte made with chocolate chip cookies) but not next week. Then, as I have for the last 18 months, I’ll post something when I damned well feel like it. One day, I will feel like it and the post won’t go up. That will mean my subscription to Radio Userland has run out.   10:54:37 PM    comment []

John Macsween ALASDAIR STEVEN JOHN MACSWEEN Butcher and haggis manufacturer Born: 17 October, 1939, in Edinburgh. Died: 12 July, 2006, in Edinburgh, aged 66. JOHN Macsween's name was much respected in Edinburgh business for half a century. He inherited the family butcher's shop in Bruntsfield and made its name known as the most recognised maker of haggis in Scotland. Macsween demanded that only the finest ingredients should be used and the quality of the firm's haggis was well known in culinary circles. He prided himself in being first and foremost a butcher - having learnt the trade from his father as a child. But Macsween was a canny businessman who had the foresight to follow through many adventurous business opportunities with a dedicated tenacity. It goes without saying that he was much in demand for the annual "Address to the Haggis" on Burns' Night. Macsween always delivered the Address with a vigour and vitality that made it a personal rendition but greatly respected the Burns' poem.   10:43:31 PM    comment []