Maw Broon’s Cookbook, featuring traditional Scottish recipes from D.C. Thomson’s famous Glebe Street mother, has been entered for the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards according to BBC Scotland this morning. Sadly they don’t seem to be posting the story on the BBC new website, only on the radio and television news, so there isn’t a link to direct you to at the moment. But it did make me smile to think on Scotland’s most famous cartoon family, originally created by the legendary Dudley Watkins back in 1936 and still going strong each weekend in the Sunday Post, being included in an international gourmand recipe awards list. Nutritionists have attacked the book for promoting unhealthy diets (well, they are Scottish recipes, so that’s kind of par for the course) although others have pointed out that it is all a bit of fun and it is unlikely someone would be making the high-fat, high-sugar recipes to eat every day, so what’s the harm?
(The Broons celebrate in style; (c) D.C. Thomson)
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