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SEAFOOD - much of it sourced from Scotland - featured heavily at the Royal wedding reception and at the evening event that followed it.
The 650 guests invited to Prince William and his new bride Catherine Middleton's lunchtime reception at Buckingham Palace enjoyed an enormous selection of food with several fish courses on the menu. In fact fish outshone the meat dishes and canapés.
For seafood connoisseurs it included Scottish langoustine with lemon mayonnaise, smoked haddock fishcakes with pea guacamole, Scottish smoked salmon and Cornish crab salad on lemon blinis. Members of the Royal Family are thought to be big fans of fish.
The evening reception menu, also at Buckingham Palace, included salmon from South Uist and langoustine from the Hebrides, along with crayfish and prawns from Wales and more dressed Cornish crab.
Just who supplied the fish remains a well-guarded secret, but it is known that smoked salmon specialists Pinney's of Scotland, which is based at Annan in Dumfries, holds the royal warrant to supply its products to the Queen. Pinney's of Scotland was sold to Young's Seafood in a £1million deal just over two years ago.
Meanwhile, 450 guests invited to a champagne reception at the British Embassy in Berlin, were treated to a British style fish and chips lunch, accompanied to the sound of a lone Scottish piper playing appropriate tunes.
The Ambassador Simon McDonald told his guests: "'The world's eyes may have been cast on London . But the second best place was the Embassy in Berlin."
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