I’m no stranger to an unusual kitchen gadget. A Danish dough whisk is part of my regular bread-making routine, and I reach for my dumpling dowel (a small type of rolling pin) every time I make ...

In 2015, Lisa Williams was vacationing in Scotland when she stumbled across a glitzy bagpipe procession and a line of people in aprons holding flags from countries around the world. She took a closer ...

A friend of mine once came home from a year spent in Edinburgh bearing a gift of a curiously carved wooden stick. “It’s a porridge-stirrer!” she declared, and while it went into the jar next to the ...

This documentary first aired in January 2018. What the heck is a spurtle? I asked this simple question about this strange word, unaware that I was opening a door to a whole world of weird. On the ...

Recently, I participated in a Secret Santa gift exchange. A colleague gave my friend a turned piece of wood which looked like a wooden flute that someone forgot to drill a hole through, or like a ...

Sven Seljom claimed the annual Golden Spurtle trophy in the Scottish Highlands on Saturday – without using a spurtle. Instead of the traditional rod-like tool, he used a slatted wooden spoon that he ...

If you stir porridge anti-clockwise, you let the devil in. That is just one of the lessons in a new Australian documentary about the World Porridge Making Championship, which takes place every year in ...

Oatmeal, water and salt. Three simple ingredients which – when combined in the right proportions, and cooked perfectly – unite the people of Carrbridge, and many visitors, for the annual World ...