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Article: Haggis was invented by the English; Scots find expert's claim about national dish hard to swallow.(News)
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- August 3, 2009
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Byline: Andrew Tolmie
IT is such a key part of Scottish culture that our national Bard penned a poem in its honour - and it, in turn, is eaten at the feasts held in his memory.
But now a leading food historian has rocked the Caledonian culinary establishment by claiming haggis is in fact an English invention.
Catherine Brown has discovered references to haggis in an English cookery guide from 1615.
This, she says, proves it was being eaten south of the Border 171 years before Robert Burns wrote his famous address to the 'great chieftain o' the puddin race'.
According to Miss Brown, a 17th century cook book called The English ...