][1]The 5pm blog team is fearless when it comes to new ways of feeding our faces.
Hand us a fork and a reasonably clean napkin and we will go anywhere and do almost anything just as long as there is the promise of scoff at the end of it all.
Even so, Iron Age food still seems a fairly daunting prospect. Food from the Seventies was scary enough so how grim was food from the twelfth century BC?
Not grim at all if we are to believe the good people at the Scottish Crannog Centre in Perthshire.
On Sunday 25 April, they are running a Celtic Food and Drink Festival.
][4]The festival’s prehistoric cooking demonstrations include not just the spit roast, but also pit cooking, bread baking and other ancient techniques. They promise local smoked meats, dairy products and tasty herb and meat dishes all washed down with authentic beverages including Iron Age beer.
If your spit roast sabretooth, or whatever it was that our ancestors ate, leaves you still feeling a little peckish then 5pm has a good selection of member restaurants in Perth and Kinross. Some of them are undiscovered treasure, others are fairly well known.
Of special note is Opus One at the New County Hotel which won the ‘Best Urban Restaurant of the Year 2010’ at the Scottish Restaurant Awards.
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