The Courier & Advertiser (Angus and Dundee)
Harbour Cafe chef is back on TV to dish up more of Fife’s delights
Fife culinary queen Amy Elles is making her second appearance on popular TV show Great British Menu.
The head chef and proprietor of the seasonal The Harbour Cafe in Elie, Fife, Amy and her husband Jack work handin-hand offering up a selection of freshly caught local seafood.
The first episode of its 16th series of Great British Menu will air on Wednesday, March 24, with Amy and the other chefs featuring in the Scottish heats expected to appear on screens across the UK the week after on March 31 at 8pm.
Last year’s show saw Amy create dishes with the theme of children’s literature. This year’s theme is British innovation and invention.
Amy said she is feeling more prepared than last time now she knows what she can expect. She said: “I think the sting was out of it this time. If you’ve never been on TV before then you have to mentally deal with a lot without realising it.”
Hinting at what she has conjured up for the judges, Amy took all of the ingredients she wanted to use with her, which included a range of products from hyperlocal Fife-based food and drink producers.
She added: “I champion all of our local ingredients and I literally just filled my Passat with produce from the suppliers and producers I have on my doorstep and drove down to the studios.
“I think, for any chef, when you use such hyperlocal ingredients, that’s what makes your dish.
“That’s part of what I did and it makes me so excited about what I cook.”
Shootings at three massage parlours in the Atlanta area have left eight people dead, many of them women of Asian descent, authorities said.
A 21-year-old man was taken into custody in south-west Georgia hours later after a manhunt, police said.
The attacks began at around 5pm on Tuesday when five people were shot at Youngs Asian Massage Parlour in a strip mall in Acworth, about 30 miles north of Atlanta, Cherokee County Sheriff ’s Office spokesman Captain Jay Baker said.
Two people died at the scene and three were taken to hospital where two more died, Mr Baker said.
Police in the Buckhead neighbourhood of Atlanta, responding to a call of a robbery in progress, later found three women dead from apparent gunshot wounds at Gold Spa.
While they were at that
scene, they learned of a call reporting shots fired at another site across the street, Aromatherapy Spa, and found a woman who appeared to have been shot dead inside.
“It appears that they may be Asian,” Atlanta Police Chief Rodney Bryant said.
South Korea’s Foreign Ministry said its diplomats in Atlanta have confirmed
with police that four of the people who died were women of Korean descent.
The killings came amid a wave of attacks against Asian Americans that coincided with the spread of coronavirus in the US.
Mr Baker said the suspect, Robert Aaron Long, of Woodstock, was taken into custody in Crisp County, about 150 miles south of Atlanta.