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Article: WHO'S DA WINNER WHEN THE CHIPS ARE DOWN?
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- Evening News - Scotland
- Article date:
- February 18, 2000
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Chips are a staple food of the Scottish diet - but are
Edinburgh's any good? Bill Clapperton put city chippies to the
test..
NEVER thought I'd see the day. There they were, three of
Edinburgh's top foodies, standing in the street on a freezing cold
February day, blue-nosed with it, furiously eating chips out of a
bag.
Food writer and author Mary Contini, a director of Valvona &
Crolla; Yves Lemarchand, the Consul for Belgium in Scotland who also
works in the hospitality business; and award-winning chef Peter
Banks, were in a huddle discussing the state of Edinburgh's chips.
Chips have come in for a bit of a battering recently - at least
those sold in Gary Rhodes' Rose Street restaurant ...