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Tuesday, August 04, 2009

The Battle of the Haggis (UK)

"Recent historical work casts doubt on the provenance of Scotland's national dish, as reported on the BBC website on Monday 3rd August. Historian Catherine Brown has located a reference to haggis in Gervase Markham's 1615 work The English Hus-Wife, which predates Burns' celebration of the dish by more than a century and a half (and is held in the Wellcome Library)"

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