For centuries it has been a symbol of Scotland alongside tartan, bagpipes and whisky. But haggis is actually an English creation, a food historian has discovered. The claim has sparked a fierce ...

The haggis, typically carried on a silver salver, is piped in by the diners with a standing slow clap - Joff Lee/Getty Burns Night, held in honour of Scotland's most famous poet Robert Burns, is ...

Historian Catherine Brown said she has discovered references to the dish in a recipe book dated 1616 and titled "The English Hus-Wife". The book, by Gervase Markham, was published at least 171 years ...

When Scotland’s first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, appeared on the “Daily Show” in 2015, she was keen to talk about Scottish independence. Her party, the Scottish National Party, had just performed ...

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - A recipe for haggis was published in an English book almost 200 years before any evidence of the dish in Scotland, a historian has claimed. Historian Catherine Brown told the ...