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Haggis, Coming to the United States?

Full Scottish breakfast, with lovely dark, lumpy haggis. [Flickr: Tuftronic10000] Today, the BBC reports that the United States may begin to loosen the imported meat restrictions that ban the Scottish haggis—a legendary national dish of sheep's heart, liver and lungs, with spices and oats, all boiled in a sheep's stomach. Incidentally, the news comes just in time for Burns Night, an annual celebration of the poetry of Robert Burns, at which haggis takes center stage—per tradition, presented with a bagpipe fanfare and saluted with Burns poem "The Address To A Haggis." We'd imagine he'd be pleased....

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12 Comments | Posted by Carey Jones, January 24, 2010 at 11:00 AM
Tagged: Burns Night, Burns Supper, haggis, Scottish

Haggis Shepherd's Pie

Joe McPherson lives in Korea and his blog, ZenKimchi Food Journal is all about collecting "recipes for cooking Korean food in Korea or abroad and recipes for recreating western food with Korean ingredients". I don't know how many Koreans or Westerners would be willing to eat the Haggis Shepherd's Pie he recently managed to cobble together, as it looks about as nasty as the name would suggest—it's the Haggis part of the equation that gives me pause—but I do give him points for being both crazy enough to think it up and intrepid enough to actually execute the idea. (If you've never had haggis but think you might like to, McLean's of Scotland will happily ship you some, ready-to-cook,...

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3 Comments | Posted by Lia Bulaong, April 13, 2007 at 9:30 AM
Tagged: haggis, Scottish, Shepherd's Pie