Claire Macdonald is one of the best known figures in the culinary world today. A hugely successful & critically acclaimed cookery writer for over thirty years she has garnered numerous awards & has appeared regularly on TV & at cookery demonstrations & courses all over the globe. In addition to all this for forty years she ran the award-winning & internationally renowned Kinloch House Lodge on Skye. Cited as one of the worlds top 25 small hotels in Conde Nast Traveller magazine Kinlochs restaurant is one of only 16 restaurants in Scotland to have been awarded a coveted Michelin star in 2011. In this book Claire looks back over four eventful decades to tell the story of how she her husband clan chief Godfrey Macdonald of Macdonald & their family built up Kinloch from insignificant beginnings in a remote but spectacularly beautiful corner of Skye to the great culinary institution it is today. Full of anecdote & humour it also reveals how hard it was to achieve their dream. An intermittent water supply shortage of telephones a lack of fresh vegetables & problems with fire regulations were just some of the problems they had to face not to mention the staff member who preferred mingling with the diners to helping in the kitchen the guest who disappeared & the gardener with very un-green fingers.