[Sca-cooks] haggis question

[Kathleen A Roberts]

On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 15:03:47 -0500
  Johnna Holloway <johnna at sitka.engin.umich.edu> wrote:


> Another theory, put forward by food historian Clarissa 
>Dickson-Wright 
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarissa_Dickson-Wright>, 
>is that haggis 
> was invented as a way of cooking quick-spoiling offal 
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offal> near the site of a 
>hunt, without 
> the need to carry along an additional cooking vessel. 

thanks.  now i have the opening of alton brown's show on 
oatmeal running thru my cold-impaired brain... cheesy 
scottish accent and all!

but it is one of my favorite skits. ;)

cailte
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