Showcase for gourmet Lanarkshire

Visitors to the show can sample food and drink from Lanarkshire

Food and drinks companies from Lanarkshire will be showcasing their products at this year's BBC Good Food Show.

A "Gourmet Lanarkshire" pavilion will be set up at the event, which runs from 2-4 November at the SECC in Glasgow.

The organisations taking part include a cheese producer, a biscuit maker, a distiller and a company that specialises in healthy crisps.

It is part of a marketing drive to attract new businesses to the area.

Carnwath-based cheese producer, Humphrey Errington, is one of those taking part.

He said: "We are farmers in the upper Clyde Valley who continue the old Lanarkshire tradition of making cheese by hand.

We are pleased that we can showcase an excellent selection of Lanarkshire's Gourmet offering in one pavilion Louisa Mahon Lanarkshire.com

"Our cheeses are for sale in delicatessens and other independent specialist food retailers, but because a majority of Scots only shop in supermarkets they won't normally encounter the sort of cheese we make.

"The BBC show is an opportunity for us to meet them and show them what beautiful cheese is made in their back yard."

The Good Food Show has been hailed as Scotland's largest dedicated food and drink event and has attracted more than 200 speciality producers.

Cookery demonstrations

Exhibitors will have the chance to promote their products in front of an audience of 15,000 people.

Louisa Mahon, of the Lanarkshire Brand and Communication Project, said: "Lanarkshire has a great reputation for premium local produce.

"The area offers the full spectrum of food production from the artisan, like HJ Errington and Co., to large-scale manufacturers such as the Butchers, Ramsay's of Carluke.

"We are pleased that we can showcase an excellent selection of Lanarkshire's Gourmet offering in one pavilion."

Other attractions at the show will include live cookery demonstrations from celebrity chefs Gordon Ramsay, James Martin and Nick Nairn and a tasting theatre to try out everything from the perfect pint to fine wines.