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IT MAY seem a little incongruous - a Mongolian yurt, on Lerwick seafront, oozing cool jazz. Add to that a pirate ship, marquee, cafe tables and top food technology and you have worlds colliding left, right and centre. This fascinating fusion is the work of a westside partnership between Burrastow House Hotel and Skeld Smokehouse. The team has come up with this imaginative vehicle in order to bring top-quality products to the 20,000 people expected to visit the event each day. They will be placed in a prime position on Victoria Pier. While Mongolians hang their meat in strips, curing it in the fragrant winds which sweep the grasslands, Dave and Debbie Hammond plan to use special technology to allow them to prepare thousands of salmon portions weeks in advance of the tall ships' visit. The pirate ship will back onto their storage lorry, allowing the team to keep the food coming fast and furious. There will be tables set outside and a marquee (just in case). The yurt, a round felt-covered structure, will be a small bar and jazz joint late into the night. The Mongolians, one imagines, would thoroughly approve. They enjoy a good drink under the stars of an evening, herds of camels and horses grazing nearby - a glass of fermented mare's milk, anyone? |
