What have the Italians done for Edinburgh?
Well, for a start there's the magnificent Roman lioness at Cramond, the tremendous Paolozzi foot on Picardy Place, the stallion-sized hanging meats of Valvona & Crolla, the much admired hangings of Richard Demarco, and the indelible memory of Rizzio at Holyrood House (Issue 225).
And what has Edinburgh given in return?
Exactly ... an embarrassing silence reigns.
Today, however as the nation remembers the Bard with spontaneous poetry recitals on every street corner, one Broughton business is going that extra mile to redress the long-standing Italo-Auld Reekie cultural exchange imbalance.
Eatalias on Brunswick Place is celebrating the life and work of Robert Burns with a commemorative carry-out fusing traditional Italo-American cuisine with the genius of Scottish offal and tubers – a Haggis and Tatties Pizza.
It comes in comforting non-metric 12” and 16” dimensions, and is topped with 'mozzarella, crispy potatoes and haggis marinated in original Edinburgh brown sauce'.
It is as delicious as it sounds, we’re told: a chieftain o’ the pizza-race.
