Tag: Poem

  • Cookin’ Burns’ Puddin’ in the Twenty First Century

    Cookin’ Burns’ Puddin’ in the Twenty First Century

    This post is confessional. It’s like a diary entry, rather than a post about the Eighteenth century, but since it’s about the haggis and Burns Night (Rabbie Burns being an Eighteenth century Scottish character) I felt I could, nay, should, reveal how I ate my haggis on Burns Night 2026.…

  • Robert Burns and his Poem – To a Haggis

    Robert Burns and his Poem – To a Haggis

    In his brilliant poem To a Haggis, Scots poet Robert Burns introduces us to the family of puddins, of which the haggis is the greatest, the Chieftain. With confidence it rules over all others, including painch, tripe and thairm – all parts of the digestive tract of cattle, sheep and…