Seafood Shack: Food & Tales from Ullapool

Kirsty Scobie and Fenella Renwicks started a seafood shack in Ullapool, Scotland, in 2016. Their first book, "The Seafood Shack: Recipes and Stories from Scotland's Wild Coast," will be published in November. The book celebrates the fishing industry that has been the beating heart of Ullapool village life for 230 years and provides over 80 down-to-earth recipes and tips for cooking white fish, smoked fish, and shellfish.

Format: Hardback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 03 November 2020
Publisher: Kitchen Press

Winner of the 2021 National Geographic Traveller Reader Award for Best Food & Travel Book, Shortlisted for the Guild of Food Writers First Book and Single Subject Book Awards 2021, Gourmand Cookbook Award Winner 2020.

In 2016, two locals, frustrated at the lack of opportunities to eat the seafood landed in Ullapool, started a seafood shack on the harbor of the North West Highlands town. Serving up whatever their fishermen friends brought them every day, Kirsty Scobie and Fenella Renwicks crowd-funded project was an instant success, and a new book, to be published in November, brings this to life.

In their first book, Kirsty and Fenella tell the story of Ullapool's Seafood Shack and bring together the recipes for the fresh, vibrant, bold dishes that have made The Seafood Shack such a Scottish treasure: from their famed Haddock & Pesto Wrap and the super-luxe Lobster Mac & Cheese to incredible super-local delicacies like Spiney Popcorn.

The Seafood Shack was born out of a conversation between Kirsty and Fenella out at sea with their fishermen partners. Ullapool has around twelve local boats fishing in the clear, icy waters of The Minch: five prawn trawlers and seven inshore creel boats, with a further two crabbing boats coming in each week and ten or so white fish boats landing regularly. The vast majority of this huge variety of seafood landing daily was then transferred straight onto the back of a lorry, making it difficult to source it locally. Eager to keep a little fresh seafood for their hometown, Kirsty and Fenella opened up The Seafood Shack. The shack swiftly went onto win recognition, winning the BBC Food & Farming Award for Best Street Food or Takeaway in 2017 and hosting visits from the likes of Mary Berry and Albert Roux.

Kirsty says: "Many tons of seafood are landed in Ullapool every day, but it's difficult to source it locally. We wanted to keep a little fresh seafood for our hometown, so we opened up The Seafood Shack. The shack swiftly went onto win recognition, winning the BBC Food & Farming Award for Best Street Food or Takeaway in 2017 and hosting visits from the likes of Mary Berry and Albert Roux."

Weight: 874g
Dimension: 198 x 251 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781916316515