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Reviews
Gareth Cole presides over one of the remotest restaurants in the UK . . . A brilliant showcase for the island's produce and for Gareth's cooking. Recipes include dulse seaweed croquettes, langoustine and smoked haddock pie, and rabbit and chutney sausage rolls
Waitrose Weekend, Easter weekend edition
A seaweed-strewn love letter to the produce, people and landscape of the Isle of Canna... This Hebridean cookbook is seasonal, sustainable and imbued with sea spray and island craic
The Herald, Christmas Gift Guide
there's more to Cole's book than recipes. It's a celebration of his home, and his tiny team... a book for those who want to be a bit hands on
The Scotsman
A sumptuous affair that portrays a foodie island idyll
Scottish Daily Mail
This is a magnificent celebration of Cafe Canna – the brilliant restaurant in the Hebrides - and the close-knit island community
Waterstones Recommends
The Hebridean cookbook we've been waiting for
Ailsa Sheldon, Herald food critic
Now you can recreate their culinary magic in your own home!
Books From Scotland
[Cole] shares his love of seafood landed from the waters surrounding the island and seaweed foraged from its shores
Herald
About the Book
Perched on a beautiful Scottish island measuring just two miles across, Café Canna is one of the remotest restaurants in Britain.
Justly famous for its seafood, landed from clear, sparkling Hebridean waters, foraged seaweed is also a mainstay of the restaurant’s imaginative menu. Meat comes from the fields nearby, vegetables from the garden plot, fruit from the orchard, fresh bread is baked daily and beer brewed on the premises.
This book is a magnificent celebration of Café Canna and the close-knit island community which is its lifeblood. The recipes showcase the enormous range of dishes produced locally – all of which can be replicated by cooking enthusiasts at home. The range of starters, main courses, puddings, accompaniments and baking is rich and varied, from Dulse seaweed croquettes, Kelp miso ramen, Langoustine prawn toast, and Beef, Skye black ale and blue murder pie to Wild gorse crème brulee, Nettle and spinach spanakopita, and Singapore chilli Canna crab.
The Author
Gareth Cole
Gareth Cole was born in Aberdeen and worked for many years in IT in London before moving with his young family to Canna to develop Café Canna.
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