Roberta Hall-McCarron - The Changing Tides
WithRoberta Hall McCarron
In conversation withChitra Ramaswamy
On:16th January 2025, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Attendance options:
We're delighted to kick start a year of bookshop events with award-winning chef Roberta Hall-McCarron. The owner-chef of three of Edinburgh's best restaurants – The Little Chartroom, Eleanore and Ardfern – will be here to discuss her cookbook, The Changing Tides. Plus there may even be a tasty treat for those of you joining us in person! Hall-McCarron will be in conversation with journalist and author Chitra Ramaswamy.
In-person vouchers can be redeemed on the night of the event against a single copy of The Changing Tides – we will have a list of attendees with vouchers to be redeemed. Please note that only one voucher can be redeemed per book. Livestream vouchers are valid until the day after the event and can be redeemed on our website against a single copy of The Changing Tides.
About The Changing Tides:
In The Changing Tides, Roberta shines a light on the abundance and quality of Scottish produce, and how it has inspired her delicious, hyper-seasonal approach to cooking. Using ingredients from game to seafood, wild mushrooms to berries, Roberta creates a culinary calendar of eating through the year, with over a hundred recipes for the home cook and including a complete dinner party menu for each season. The book also features a skills section with basic game and seafood prep.
Celebrate the best of spring with Asparagus and Roast Chicken Hollandaise or Trout and Spring Vegetable Galette, or imagine summer feasting tables laid with Lamb Rack, Labneh and Sweetheart Cabbage and Chilled Rice Pudding. The gamey flavours of autumn include Mallard Rillettes and Whole Roasted Partridge, and as the nights draw in for winter, turn to Roberta’s signature Braised Beef and Caramelised Onion Pie or her Chocolate Fudge Cake of dreams, served with malt chocolate custard.
Please note: Tickets for our events are non-refundable. Professional photography and videography may take place during this event. Thank you for your understanding.
Participants:
Roberta Hall McCarron Author
Roberta Hall-McCarron is an award-winning Scottish chef. Roberta’s career has taken her from the Balmoral to the world’s only 7* hotel in Dubai and back to work alongside Tom Kitchin and Dominic Jack at The Kitchin and Castle Terrace. She opened The Little Chartroom in 2018, Eleanore in 2021 and Ardfern in 2024.
Chitra Ramaswamy Chair
Chitra Ramaswamy is a journalist and author from London. Her latest book, Homelands: The History of a Friendship (Canongate) is a work of creative non-fiction exploring her friendship with a 99-year-old German Jewish refugee called Henry Wuga. It won the Saltire Non-Fiction Book of the Year and was included in The Guardian’s top memoirs and biographies of 2022. Her first book, Expecting: The Inner Life of Pregnancy (Saraband) won the Saltire First Book of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the Polari Prize. She has contributed essays to Antlers of Water, Nasty Women, The Freedom Papers, The Bi:ble, and Message From The Skies and recently completed a commission from the Alasdair Gray Archive. She is a freelance writer for The Guardian, the restaurant critic for The Times Scotland, and broadcasts for BBC radio. She lives in Edinburgh with her partner, two children, and rescue dog.
The venue
The Portobello Bookshop
46 Portobello High Street
Edinburgh
EH15 1DA
Telephone: 0131 629 6756
Website: www.theportobellobookshop.com
Wheelchair Access
We have a ramp at the front of the shop which has a ratio of 1:10 and loading capacity of 300kg, and so should be able to be used by most wheelchair users or those with mobility vehicles. The front doors are fully automated. Our shop interior is designed to allow access throughout for wheelchair users and prams, though please note there is only 700mm wide clearance to access the staff toilet.
Sound
We use a PA system to enhance the audio at our live events. We also have a hearing loop system installed, if you’d like to use our loop system during an event please let us know and we’ll make sure we have it set up and connected to the live audio feed during the event. If you wish to attend an event and require BSL interpretation, please give us a few weeks notice and we’ll do our best to arrange an interpreter.