Author Patricia Nicol reveals a selection of the best books on: Whisky
Had your fill of Dry January? Even Veganuary? Then might I suggest Burns Night as a celebratory opportunity to see off both. Today is the day that Scots, the Scottish diaspora and an arguably more niche cohort who just love sheep’s guts dishes celebrate the birth of Scotland’s national poet, Robert Burns. My husband and I tick all three of the above boxes. After a dry ten days or so of January, we will savour a wee dram alongside our haggis, neeps and tatties. Whisky can be dangerous stuff, but in Compton Mackenzie’s Hebridean wartime caper, Whisky Galore, it really is uisge beatha, Sco...