The Ultimate Burns Supper Book
A Practical (but Irreverent) Guide to Scotland’s Greatest Celebration
Seiten
2024
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2nd New edition
Luath Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-910745-22-9 (ISBN)
Luath Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-910745-22-9 (ISBN)
An updated
version of McGinn’s practical approach to running a Burns Supper, complete with illustrations.
Everything you need to enjoy or arrange a Burns Supper - just add food, drink and friends.
Clark McGinn, one of the foremost Burns Supper speakers in the world, presents The Ultimate Burns Supper Book. Containing all the information you need to enjoy a Supper, whether as host, speaker or guest, this book is full of advice, anecdotes, poetry and wit. Robert Burns is one of Scotland's greatest gifts to civilisation (along with whisky) and his poetry is rightly celebrated across the globe. The odds are you'll be invited to a Supper at some point in your life and you may even want to host a Supper of your own. Whatever the case, this book will provide you with all the information you need to have great fun at every Burns Supper as guest or host.
- A complete run through of what to expect on the night, with a list of courses and speeches
- Advice on what to wear
- A section on how to prepare and present speeches
- A list of common Burns Supper questions (and their answers!)
- A selection of Burns's greatest poems, including a full English verse translation of the Address to a Haggis
- Answers your concerns about eating haggis and extols the pleasures of drinking whisky.
Some hae meat and canna eat, And some wad eat that want it, But we hae meat and we can eat, And sae the Lord be thankit - The Selkirk Grace, Robert Burns
version of McGinn’s practical approach to running a Burns Supper, complete with illustrations.
Everything you need to enjoy or arrange a Burns Supper - just add food, drink and friends.
Clark McGinn, one of the foremost Burns Supper speakers in the world, presents The Ultimate Burns Supper Book. Containing all the information you need to enjoy a Supper, whether as host, speaker or guest, this book is full of advice, anecdotes, poetry and wit. Robert Burns is one of Scotland's greatest gifts to civilisation (along with whisky) and his poetry is rightly celebrated across the globe. The odds are you'll be invited to a Supper at some point in your life and you may even want to host a Supper of your own. Whatever the case, this book will provide you with all the information you need to have great fun at every Burns Supper as guest or host.
- A complete run through of what to expect on the night, with a list of courses and speeches
- Advice on what to wear
- A section on how to prepare and present speeches
- A list of common Burns Supper questions (and their answers!)
- A selection of Burns's greatest poems, including a full English verse translation of the Address to a Haggis
- Answers your concerns about eating haggis and extols the pleasures of drinking whisky.
Some hae meat and canna eat, And some wad eat that want it, But we hae meat and we can eat, And sae the Lord be thankit - The Selkirk Grace, Robert Burns
CLARK McGINN is a successful banker and widely credited Burns supper speaker. Born in Ayr and educated at Ayr Academy and Glasgow University, McGinn has a keen interest in the legacy of poet Robert Burns.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 08.06.2018 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
| Gewicht | 200 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken ► Länderküchen |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-910745-22-7 / 1910745227 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-910745-22-9 / 9781910745229 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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