If it is true that you should never trust a skinny chef, then had Dick Peebles ever been a chef he would have been entirely trustworthy. In truth Dick became a food “expert” through eating a great deal, on the basis that if you do a lot of something you will gradually become knowledgeable on the subject. Almost as fat as Martin “Lunch” Levy, Dick is however much less lazy and considerably better-looking.

After a decade working overseas in the oil business, and three years as skipper of a fishing boat in the Irish Sea, Dick founded Caledonian Wildfoods in Glasgow, starting off with a single basket of girolles from Loch Lomond woodlands and building to a nine-van fleet and two consecutive “Supplier of the Year” awards.

He appeared on two series of Nick Nairn’s “Wild Harvest” programme as well as being the subject of a wild mushroom programme on the BBC’s “Reporting Scotland”. Dick has a passion for exotic food from around the world but particularly the wild produce of Scotland.


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