[Sca-cooks] Iceland & Scotland - what to get?

[Elaine Koogler]

Actually, any good travel agent should be able to point you to the right place.
However, Customs is part of the Treasury Department, though Agriculture does
determine the limitations on things that can be imported (food/plant/animals).

Kiri

Jane Sitton wrote:

> I haven't heard that the ban on meat products from the UK has been lifted,
> so I'd find out before I had my parents spend money on stuff they might have
> to leave behind.  Do you suppose the airport would have the phone number for
> the customs dept.?  I surfed the web a bit, but couldn't find anything
> useful.  Is the customs dept. part of the Treasury?  The USDA?  I dunno...
> (showing my lack of egumikashun, as I went to publick skoolz)
>
> Madelina the ignorant
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark.S Harris [mailto:mark.s.harris at motorola.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 2:07 PM
> To: SCA-Cooks maillist
> Subject: [Sca-cooks] Iceland & Scotland - what to get?
>
> M. Gwyneth asked:
> > My parents will be traveling to Iceland (Klefavik, Reykjavik) and Scotland
> > (Glasgow, Iona, Edinburgh) on vacation for the next 2 weeks. What would be
> > interesting food/drink-related items to bring back for me that could fit
> in a
> > suitcase?
>
> Over the last few years, Nanna has regaled us with some wonderful
> stories about the various foods of Iceland. Some of these may not be
> commercially available or available at this time of year, however
> you might look through this file in the FOOD-BY-REGION section of
> the Florilegium and see if any of these items appeal to you. The
> Icelandic shark and some of the whey cheese come to mind:
> fd-Iceland-msg    (56K) 11/29/00    Food of medieval Iceland. Recipes.
> http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-BY-REGION/fd-Iceland-msg.html
>
> For Scotland, this file:
> fd-Scotland-msg   (39K)  9/21/00    Medieval food of Scotland. recipes.
> http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-BY-REGION/fd-Scotland-msg.html
>
> There is always haggis, but the opinions on the canned variety have
> not been good. However, perhaps it could be bought fresh and kept
> ok until you got it. I have no idea if there are any food import
> restrictions from those two countries.
>
> Stefan li Rous
> stefan at texas.net
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