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Article: A day to visit Dundee: the old whaling port rides high again!
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- British Heritage
- Article date:
- November 1, 2009
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MARMALADE MAY BE Scotland's second greatest contribution to the world's culinary pleasures. Like a fine malt whisky, Scottish marmalade assaults you with massive tongue flavors, then bursts with overwhelming aromatics; like haggis, it's pungent, a product of a land that likes strong flavors. Unlike either, however, it requires an exotic ingredient from sunny tropical lands--the hard, little, bitter oranges from Seville, Spain. Marmalade could only have come from a great seaport, a crossroads where even this obscure and nearly unsaleable citrus could be found. That seaport was Dundee.
Dundee is a tightly packed city of 141,000 sitting on the north bank of the ...
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