Scottish Food News - October 2015

October's food calendar features coffee, cocktails, a fate-tempting outdoor food festival and a host of food-themed film screenings

Feature by Peter Simpson | 07 Oct 2015

We begin this month’s round-up at Glasgow’s Southside Film Festival, with a look at Palestinian food culture in Resistance Recipes. The latest in an ongoing series of events from the Open Jar art collective, the event features screenings of Palestinian short films as well as cookery demos and tastings. 11 Oct, 12.30pm, Toryglen Community Base, 179 Prospecthill Circus, free.

Staying in Glasgow and taking a similarly serious look at the world of food, film double bill Skipping Dinner and Taste the Waste tackle the issue of wasted, rejected, and just-plain-chucked-away food both at home and elsewhere.

Skipping Dinner by the Glasgow-based film group camcorder guerrillas looks at the city’s freegan movement, while German filmmaker Valentin Thurn takes on the sheer volume of food which hits landfill between farm and fridge in Taste the Waste – maybe not the double bill to accompany with your usual pedal bin full of popcorn. 13 Oct, 7pm, CCA, 350 Sauchiehall St, free.


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The following weekend sees this column return to its usual happy-go-lucky self, although that may be the result of a pre-emptive hyperactivity brought on by the return of the Glasgow Coffee Festival.

With around 30 of the top coffee producers and pourers from across the city and beyond in attendance, and a host of other coffee-related hijinks including short films and art exhibitions, it’s the ideal chance to go on a caffeine-powered ramble in the company of like-minded individuals. More power to you, we say, wiping milk froth from our beards. 17 Oct, The Briggait, 141 Bridgegate, £10/8

Meanwhile in Edinburgh, there’s the capital debut of Kiltr’s Street Feastival at St Andrew Square. Promising street-style dishes from some of the city’s top restaurants, along with DJs and – of course – a well-stocked bar, there’s bound to be a dish or drink to suit even the fussiest of your friends. If there isn’t, well, at least we tried. 16-18 Oct, St Andrew Square, free.

Finally this month, things get a bit swanky with the return of Cocktails in the City, bringing eighteen of the capital’s bars together under the incredibly swag roof of the Mansfield Traquair.

There’s one-to-one cocktail tuition, a host of tasty drinks to try out, and a lovely room packed with detail and charm – it’ll be just like that ‘nice night out’ you’ve got stored somewhere in your imagination. 29 & 30 Oct, 6pm, Mansfield Traquair, 15 Mansfield Pl, £10


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