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Aberfoyle Welcomes Iceland to 2007 Aberfoyle International Mushroom Festival ............................................................................................. Sponsored by IcelandAir and |
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Meet The Experts in Aberfoyle, gateway to The Trossachs! |
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ANNA MAGNUSSON, who we welcome to open the festival, is a Senior Producer with BBC Radio Scotland, a broadcaster and a writer. Her second book is being published on 28 Septeber by Black and White Publishing. It's called 'The Sky's the Limit' and is the story of Vicky Jack, the first Scotswoman to complete the Seven Summits - the seven highest mountains on the seven continents. When she climbed Everest in 2004 she became the oldest British woman to do so. It's a story of an ordinary woman who is not an elite climber who decided, in her 30s, to climb all the Munros - and then just kept going. Her first book - revised and re-printed in October 2006 as The Quarriers Story - was a history of Quarriers, the childrens' Home founded by the Scottish Victorian philanthropist, William Quarrier. Anna has been making radio programmes for nearly 20 years, and has travelled around the world making documentaries, including a series on the Scottish ecologist and founder of the American national park system, John Muir. She has also made several programmes in Iceland, most recently two years ago when she presented a series about Icelandic landscape and spirituality. Anna studied in Rekjavik in 1986 iand travelled round the country by bus a few years later to improve her Icelandic and get to know my country better. She was there in August with my sister, Sally. |
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LIZ HOLDEN has been seriously interested in fungi for twenty years and is an active field mycologist involved in fungal survey work across Scotland. She has a particular interest in sharing her enthusiasm for the subject and runs regular workshops for both beginners and improvers in mycology. This is her 7th year at the Mushroom Festival leading the very popular Fungus Forays. |
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ISOBEL BARTHOLOMEW is a botanical artist who has sold work in the U.K. and abroad, and has been awarded medals from the Royal Horticultural Society. She has illustrations in the Royal Horticultural Society’s “ New Dictionary of Gardening “ and Lindley Library Collection, and included in Dr. Shirley Sherwood’s book “A Passion for Plants – Contemporary Botanical Masterworks”. She has exhibited in Thetford and Bury St. Edmunds Cathedral, and had two paintings accepted for the “Highgrove Florilegium”, a Prince’s Trust initiative. We welcome her for the first time to the Aberfoyle Mushroom Festival |
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The main purpose of “BAGGALUTUR COUNTRY BAND ” is to give the world a glimpse of the much neglected and often ignored icelandic country/blugrass/hawaii music-scene. You will have the opportunity to catch more han a glimpse as they will be playing at many venues during the Mushroom Festival. They are Bragi Valdimar Skúlason, Gudmundur Kristinn Jónsson, Gudmundur Pálsson and Karl Sigurdsson and one or two more from .... Dan Cassidy, Gudmundur Pétursson, Gudmundur Freyr Vigfússon, Magnús Einarsson, Mikael Svenson, Kristbjörn Helgason, Kristinn Snær Agnarsson, Sigurdur Gudmundsson. |
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ÚLFAR FINNBJÖRNSSON, one of Iceland’s leading chefs has achieved much in an illustrious career during which he has catered for over 1000 at an à la carte banquet, at dinners and receptions for the Mayor of Reykjavik and President of Iceland and presented a series on cooking for Icelandic State TV. He has written “A Taste of Iceland” & his recipes are included in many Icelandic & foreign books. For his excellent results in international cookery competitions he was awarded The Cordon Bleu Medal by the Association of Icelandic Master Chefs. Known as “The Wild Chef” Úlfar specialises in game, fish and all things wild - creating exciting dishes from the clean and unspoiled nature of Iceland. He has many hobbies and his aim is to be happily busy and busily happy! |  |
SIGURDUR RÚNAR graduated in 2004 from the Icelandic culinary school with apprenticeship in Restaurant Einar Ben. Since graduating he worked as a Sous chef in Hotel Borg and Apotek bar-grill and “VOX” at Hilton Reykjavik Nordica Hotel, Iceland’s finest restaurant. He was a head chef last year for the annual Pink gala dinner, Reyjavik’s biggest fund raiser for the Icelandic cancer society, and is a member of the Icelandic youth Culinary team which in 2007 won a Gold and a Silver medal in the World Culinary Grand Prix in Glasgow. Sigurdur likes to spend his free time in the nature of Iceland, growing trees, hunting, fishing, picking berries, herbs, mushrooms and whatever the seasonal nature has to offer. |
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MICHAEL CLAYTON trained at the eminent Courtfield College, Blackpool. Since leaving college, he has worked at Cromlix House, Kinbuck, The Lake Hotel, Port of Menteith (gaining the restaurant two AA rosettes) and Ardoe House, Aberdeen. Mike has been head chef at the The Forth Inn for a number of years now. |  |
JONATHAN HONEYMAN is a Master Butcher with his own family business for 18 years, The Aberfoyle Butcher. His apprenticeship included a period at the French College de Boucherie near Paris. He was Education Convener of the Scottish Federation of Meat Traders Association and his business is the only family butcher enjoying corporate status with the Master Chefs of Great Britain. He regularly demonstrates for Quality Meat Scotland and supplied and prepared the 74 Roe Buck carcases for the Queen’s Birthday Lunch the main course being cooked by his long-time associate, Nick Nairn. |
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