Lowland and Border Foodways

Regional

The agricultural Lowlands and the Central Belt: the LOTHIANS, FIFE, ANGUS, AYRSHIRE, the BORDERS and Perthshire — grain, dairy, the Ayrshire dairy breed, soft fruit in the Carse of Gowrie and Angus, seed potatoes, beef, and a strong baking and brewing tradition. SCOTS is the language here, and the food words with it: tatties, neeps, breid, brose, clootie, kail. SELKIRK BANNOCK, Forfar bridies, Dundee cake and Dundee marmalade, Arbroath smokies, and the Border sheep country.