Thanks for your comment and recommendation. I had a look at the veal farm’s website and it certainly does look good. I’d love to try it but I’m not currently in the UK.

I think there is a big move back to more artisan food products both by producers and consumers. On a recent visit to Scotland, I was delighted by the range of local produce available – beef, lamb, fish, cheese, veg. It seemed as though everything had been grown or reared on the doorstep of our host’s house. Such wonderful food!

I can’t remember when I last ate so well as we did during our trip to Caithness. So much food elsewhere is mass-produced and often mediocre. It’s wonderful to find small producers and cottage industries raising the standard.

That changed last year when I managed to hear a producer speak at the BBC Good Food show, he was one of the main speakers in the Slow Food UK stand and described how he reared his high welfare veal. I must say having tasted it there and been able to hear him and see pictures of the production I was a convert. I’ve been getting a fairly regular box from him now by mail order and it’s great stuff. I would recommend him to anyone, really old school little farm on a small Scottish island doing something new and rearing his animals ethically and obviously really had a care about what he was doing. Try them out!

Do you often eat veal and have you tried rose veal?