Macsween Haggis
Macsween of Edinburgh has launched a new range of catering pack products, just in time for St Andrews in November and, of course, Burns in January.
Macsween is a Scottish family business which specialises in the production of traditional Scottish haggis, the national dish of Scotland. The Macsween family recipe, handed down from generation to generation, is still used today.
The earliest references to haggis date back to ancient Greek texts, and there are claims that the dish may well have come to Scotland in a Viking longboat around the time of the Nordic invasions in the ninth century.
Haggis reached literary fame in the words of Scotland’s famous poet, Robert Burns, in the 18th Century. It is largely through the celebrations of his birth on the 25th January each year, that the eating of haggis has become a certain ritual.
Burns wrote The Address to a Haggis, now a world famous poem, recited at every Burns Supper all over the world. To an extent, it is because of Burns that haggis has retained such a Scottish identity.