Robert Burns, Burns Dinner

[cscunningham]

I have been asked by my church to think about putting on a Burns Dinner this coming January or February. We do have a number of Scotts in the area so attendance should not be a problem. My questions are:

1) Does anyone know who or are I can pick up Haggis in the greater Boston area?

2) Does anyone any Scottish caterers in the Southern NH region?

3) If I have to engage volunteer cooks can some recommend an easy Scottish cookbook?

I have attend Burns Dinners so I have a good idea as to what the program should look like, but if you had one thing that must be done make the evening a more memorable one please share it with me.

Thanks in advance for your help.

[tsargent62]

One thing that is a must. Try to find a real Scot for the address to the Haggis. I've been to so many dinners where they had someone with a bad Scottish accent trying to do the address. Also, I've seen some people do an abbreviated address. Didn't like that either. One thing that I have seen that's nice is to have the address printed in the evening's program.