What is Fife’s food like?
Fife is a paradise for seafood lovers. We ate this Salt Cured Salmon at The Newport. Scottish food is hearty fare fueled by the country’s bounty of local, seasonal products. Fish and other proteins take a prominent role, but vegetarians rejoice in indigenous fruits and vegetables found both in markets and on Fife’s restaurant menus.
What is the meaning of Fife?
English Language Learners Definition of fife : a musical instrument that looks like a small flute See the full definition for fife in the English Language Learners Dictionary
Why become a food from Fife member?
As a Food From Fife member, you will have the opportunity to shape developments, meet and share experiences of other local businesses, get access to insights, training, marketing and trading opportunities and much more. We are delighted to once again be able to host Scotland’s Daffodil Festival here at Backhouse Rossie on 9th & 10th April 2022.
How will we grow food in Fife?
We will grow food in Fife that is climate friendly and climate ready, reduces waste, redistributes excess and supports soil health and biodiversity. We will empower Fife’s food community and citizenship through communication and increased access to growing spaces, food skills and education.
Is Red Fife good for you?
Red fife flour Mixing both sifted and whole grain together in equal parts makes a versatile and healthful flour blend that works in muffins, bread and pancakes.
What does Red Fife taste like?
Red fife wheat is very flavorful, with a slight cinnamon sweetness and hint of anise.
What type of wheat is Red Fife?
bread wheatRed Fife is a bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) variety that Dave Fife and family began to grow in 1842 at their farm in Peterborough, Ont. Its name is derived from the original red colour of the wheat kernel and the name of the farmer; this was a typical procedure for naming wheat in the mid-1800s.
Is Red Fife an ancient grain?
According to the Canadian Encyclopedia: “Red Fife is Canada's oldest wheat. One legend states that a load of wheat grown in Ukraine was on a ship in the Glasgow harbour.
Is red fife a hard wheat?
Red Fife (Triticum aestivum) wheat is a Canadian landrace descendent of Western Ukrainian (Galicia) wheat; it's old local Galician name being “Halychanka”. It is a hard, bread wheat with straws of 0.9 to 1.5 metres tall.
Is red fife flour all purpose?
Sifted Red Fife Flour If Sifted Red Spring Wheat Flour is considered to be our "bread flour" then Sifted Red Fife Flour is our "all purpose". It's softer gluten strength makes it great in cookies, cakes, and pastries.
Is Fife red winter wheat?
Red Fife seed is a heritage grain that can be planted as either spring wheat or winter wheat, depending on your climate. Plant as winter wheat in areas with cold, freezing winters and as spring wheat where winters are milder with few freezes.
Does red fife flour have gluten?
Because Red Fife has high gluten potential, it can be used by itself or mixed with low gluten flours such as rye or spelt.
Is Hard red wheat the same as red fife?
Red Fife is an heirloom wheat with a high protein level (15.4%) and deeper, more complex flavors than common hard red winter wheats.
What are hard wheat berries?
Hard Red Wheat Berries are among the least-processed forms of wheat available. The same whole-wheat kernels used to make wheat flour are harvested in winter and hulled, with the bran and germ layers left intact. Light to dark reddish tan kernels with nutty flavor and chewy texture. A natural whole-grain product.
What Spelt flour?
Spelt flour is a flour made from a species of wheat with a nutty, slightly tangy flavor. Since it's a form of wheat, it does contain gluten. It can be used for making cookies, breads, muffins and other applications where you'd use wheat flour.
What is in einkorn flour?
What Is Einkorn Flour? Einkorn flour is produced from the grains of an ancient species of wheat that was domesticated in the Fertile Crescent roughly 12,000 years ago. Unlike modern wheat, einkorn has a single grain on each stem. It's a hardy plant that thrives in even the toughest environments.
Fife.gov.uk
The Food4Fife project is about people in Fife (individuals, communities and businesses) coming together to work across all aspects of the food system to help solve some of today’s health, environmental and economic challenges.
Creating a sustainable food culture, for a healthy Fife
Fife will work to stop and prevent food poverty by providing a dignified, fair and just access to healthy and affordable food for all.
Food from Fife: bringing together food and drink in Fife
From top restaurants to neighbourhood cafes; resort hotels to B&B’s; artisan producers to large-scale manufacturers; markets to festivals; and everything in between: Food from Fife brings together food and drink in the region.
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Where is Fife?
The Fife Coastal Path never disappoints. We took this photo at sunset by the Firth of Forth in Crail.
What is Scottish Food
Fife is a paradise for seafood lovers. We ate this Salt Cured Salmon at The Newport.
Fife Food Guide
Fife has more to offer than seafood. Pictured here is Perthshire Mallard at The Newport.
Fife Food Feast Video
Watch us eat and drink our way around Fife in our entertaining YouTube video.
Plan Your Fife Trip
We stayed at three awesome Fife hotels and an equally awesome Fife apartment during our week in Fife. We recommend them all.
About the Authors
Saveur Magazine’s BEST TRAVEL BLOG award winners Daryl and Mindi Hirsch share their culinary travel experiences and recipes on the 2foodtrippers website and YouTube. The married Food and Travel content creators live in Lisbon, Portugal.
Disclosures
We thank Visit Scotland and Welcome to Fife for sponsoring our trip to Scotland which helped us to facilitate this article. We also thank their partners for their warm hospitality. While aspects of this trip were received in kind, all opinions are our own.
History
Fife, bounded to the north by the Firth of Tay and to the south by the Firth of Forth, is a natural peninsula whose political boundaries have changed little over the ages.
Governance
Fife is represented by five constituency members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs) and four members of the United Kingdom parliament (MPs) who are sent to Holyrood and the British Parliament respectively. Following the 2015 general election, all four of the MPs constituencies were held by the Scottish National Party.
Geography
Fife is a peninsula in eastern Scotland bordered on the north by the Firth of Tay, on the east by the North Sea and by the Firth of Forth to the south. The route to the west is partially blocked by the mass of the Ochil Hills.
Towns and villages
Cupar took over as county town from Crail in the early 13th century. Glenrothes is now the administrative centre, after the decision to locate the headquarters of the newly established Fife Regional Council there in 1975. Fife's three major towns are Kirkcaldy, Dunfermline and Glenrothes.
Culture
Scottish Lowlands farm. Detail from Slezer's Prospect of Dunfermline, 1693
Sports
St Andrews in Fife is the home of golf, being home to The R&A, the governing body of the sport throughout the world, aside from the United States and Mexico. The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews, from which it was devolved in 2004, is the world's oldest golf club.
Media
Locally published newspapers include the Fife Free Press in Kirkcaldy; the Dunfermline Press in Dunfermline; the Glenrothes Gazette in Glenrothes, the East Fife Mail in Leven, the Fife Herald in Cupar / Howe of Fife and the St Andrews Citizen in St Andrews.
