We’re getting into peak harvest season which means that we are also getting into peak food fair season.

There is a lot to choose from this weekend.

In Dundee, the annual Flower and Food Festival opens on Friday and runs throughout the weekend at Camperdown Country Park.

As well as competitions to find who makes the best Scotch Broth and who can grow the most impressive carrots, there will be lots of chef demos.

Incredible Spice Men

Among the pan rattlers making an appearance are the super smooth Jean Christophe Novelli, the ever cheery Jak O’Donnell of The Sisters and the Incredible Spice Men: Tony Singh and Cyrus Todiwalah.

Naturally, there will be lots of entertainment such as live music, including the Mackenzie Caledonian Pipe Band; fight re-enactments from The Clann; falconry displays and Highland dancing competitions.

Should we be lucky and have a scorcher of a weekend, there is always the option of retiring to the beer tent.

Loch Lomond Food and Drink

Moving west, the Loch Lomond Food and Drink Festival is also running this weekend.

Opening on Saturday, the fest doesn’t just showcase produce from around Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park, there is food and drink from all over the UK and beyond.

Visitors can expect a full programme of live music, kids’ cookery classes, lots of artisan food producers selling their wares and plenty of street food.

Morbid fascination means we would like to watch the McIntosh’s Famous Haggis-Eating Competition on Saturday and Sunday afternoons.

Really Wild Cooking

We are also very tempted by the  Really Wild Cooking demo. Monica Wilde, one of Scotland’s most experienced foragers, will be helping audiences to discover some unusual local wild foods.

Alternatively, Clanscape Kitchen will be showing how the inhabitants of the Highlands during 17th and early 18th centuries tried to exist from the land.

Visitors can try their hand at making butter, grinding grain and making oak cakes on an open fire.