BRIAN Cox is right to draw attention to Scotland's long sang with "succar" (greetin for a wee bawbee tae buy some succar candy), with the sugaries (the factories that refined the stuff), with sugarallie water, sugar biscuits, sugarbools and sugardoddles (sweeties) and a sugar-piece (butter and bread sprinkled with sugar) ("Actor Cox reveals he visited a Mumbai opium den", The Herald, November 14). But Scotland and sugar has an even more difficult history from as early as the 17th century sugar-boiling houses in Glasgow, the making of rum and of course the rush into slavery, particularly after the 1707 treaty. Sugar was king in Glasgow for many years and Professor Tom Devine tells us that "by 1790 the sugar islands become the Clyde's premier overseas centre of trade".
This year, former employees of the Derby sugar machinery engineering company Fletcher and Stewart will meet for their 26th annual reunion lunch. Jane Goddard takes a look at the history of the firm. IN 1964, two of the oldest sugar machinery manufacturers in the world merged to become Fletcher and Stewart Ltd.
THE grey and cold weather at Christmas 1978 said it all about the state of the country. 'A pessimistic gloom descends,' noted comedian Michael Palin in his diary as he watched cars queuing outside petrol stations, desperate to fill up before an expected strike of tanker drivers. 'It's siege conditions,' he concluded. Just three months earlier, the avuncular Labour Prime Minister 'Sunny Jim' Callaghan had decided not to call a general election and risk another hung parliament in which he would have to continue kowtowing to a dozen or so Liberal Party MPs. He would wait, he calculated, for the improving economic situation to deliver him a thumping victory over the Tories and their new leader, Margaret Thatcher.
..., the lowest point in recent British history, and Callaghan proved powerless to stop it. Thirty...Stoppages in the car industry meant 750,000 men were scheduled to be laid off, o... of Agriculture reported severe shortages of sugar, butter, salt, breakfast cereals, biscuits and mar...
THE announcement of the Intangible Heritage Project (IHP) sounds, at first, like a story for April Fools' Day but it has serious undertones ("From banter to Blitz: the Scottish heritage that's a global treasure", The Herald, October 27). Unfortunately, the subject matter initially proposed is far from intangible. In fact, it is so familiar that it ranks as what could be termed the "jeelie piece" brand of Scottish history. This includes Barrhead Industry, Paisley Mills and Greenock sugar, all mentioned in your coverage.
'Lord Sugar commented during the latest series of The Apprentice that the beauty industry is a fast-growing billion-pound industry. However, is the industry out of control and straying too far into the realms of cosmetic surgery? Should the industry stick to offering "traditional" beauty treatments and leave cosmetic procedures to cosmetic surgeons? A couple of weeks ago, I was walking through a busy city shopping centre when I came across a stall in the middle of the walkway offering on-site teeth whitening in 90 minutes in less-thanprivate booths. Like in the United States, it seems as if "lunch hour" cosmetic treatments are becoming prevalent. Concern surely has to centre on the safety of such procedures. It is now usual to see Botox and other cosmetic procedures being offered at you...
... surgeon will consider your full medical history in order to identify any allergies or underlying m...
IT has rightly earned the tag as one of the jewels of the Indian Ocean. With miles of white sandy beaches, lagoons and up-market hotels, Mauritius is perceived as a holiday haven for the rich and famous.
...The dodo may have long gone, but sugar cane plantations live on. We headed for nearby Gra...Mauritius has a flourishing textile industry and you can barter till your heart's content for c..., the Government House and the Natural History Museum, where the dodo was reconstructed from the ...
KARREN BRADY HAS AN ENERGY AND DETERMINATION THAT would daunt even Margaret Thatcher. As vice-chairman of West Ham, she's spent the past months putting together her team's winning bid to take over the Olympic Stadium. She's Alan Sugar's sidekick on The Apprentice, sits on the board of Philip Green's Arcadia Group and writes columns for a national tabloid and a women's magazine. In her spare time, she's working on her second book, a guide to empowering young women in business. What's really astonishing about this superwoman is that she's also managed to carve out time to conduct a successful private life. She is happily married to Canadian footballer-turned-manager Paul Peschisolido and is a devoted mother to their two children - and she doesn't employ a nanny. Clearly, her juggling skil...
... profit for the first time in the club's history. That was a real turning point. People thought, "P... tougher by the entrenched sexism of the industry. She had players commenting on her figure, a journ...
James Martin If you think Britain is obsessed with baking, then take a look at how they do it in the US. TV chef James Martin gives Diana Pilkington a taste of his sweet American adventure Britain may be in the midst of a baking boom, but James Martin reckons we can learn a thing or two from how Americans approach the cake industry. We've got a better history and certainly have some better dishes but we don't promote and market it as much as these guys, and that's the big difference," says the host of Saturday Kitchen during a break from filming scenes in New York for his new show, United Cakes Of America.
... the cake: 250g butter 250g light brown sugar 1tsp ground cinnamon 1tbsp maple syrup 4 eggs ...
For those who care to look, Glasgow's Merchant City is packed with clues to the city's connections with the New World. The restored classical glory of St Andrews in the Square is furnished in Caribbean hardwoods, while the name of Jamaica Street proclaims the city's sugar trading past. The Tobacco Merchant's House and the Gallery of Modern Art, once a private house, hint at an elite lifestyle as extravagant in its day as any in New York, Singapore or Dubai. Glasgow is proud of this heritage, although even the title of the trendy quarter itself shows the selectivity of city boosters. This may have been a golden age for the tobacco lords and the sugar aristocracy, but it was little short of hellish for the slaves who worked and died for them on plantations across the Atlantic. You could c...
... it went, but also its impact on British industry and commerce as well as imperial, cultural, politi...
HE food traditionally associated with Wales has deep-rooted connections with its geography, industry and history. It comes from the mining valleys of the south, the quiet coastal fishing harbours, the rolling rural landscape of sheep-dotted hills and the rugged upland farms.
... mutton pie spiced and sweetened with sugar and dried fruits (originally made to disguise the ...
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