Local haggis bound for Armenia
Published on Saturday 19 January 2013 11:45
AWARD-winning haggis from local butcher J A Waters & Sons in Selkirk
High Street will soon be making its way to Yerevan, Armenia, for the
annual Burns supper organised by the Armenian British Business Chamber
in conjunction with Charles Masraff, chef-proprietor of Selkirk’s
newest restaurant The Place.
Charles who has recently returned to Scotland from Armenia with
partner Linda Fergusson helped found the business chamber there and
has run the Burns supper for several years.
Charles told The Wee Paper: `Every year this attracts a multi-racial,
multi-cultural audience of some 250 people and apart from entertaining
the guests with a memorable Scottish evening, it provides a charitable
purse of some $25,000 which is distributed among the poorest of the
population many of whom live, since Soviet times, in remote rural
areas.’
He added: `The audience is made up of locals and expats who contribute
to the charity through the cost of the tickets and by bidding at an
auction of items provided by local businesses and individuals.’
Charles is taking a number of local textile items which have fetched
considerable sums in the past, as have special bottles of malt whisky
and old vintages of the local Armenian brandy which became Winston
Churchill’s favourite tipple having been gifted a case by Societ
leader, Stalin.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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