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‘Scran’: Chitra Ramaswamy in conversation with Ali Stoner, ‘Roving Haggis’

  • 21/09/2024
  • St Margaret's
Two women speaking on stage at Braemar Literary Festival
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A smiling woman signing a book

Jojo Moyes in conversation with Vicki Perrin, The Queen’s Reading Room

Ali Stoner, or the ‘Roving Haggis’ as she is also known, is a highly creative Scottish cook, previous MasterChef Australia contestant and social media influencer. Born in Glasgow, she currently lives in Melbourne, Australia with her husband and family.

She was joined by Chitra Ramaswamy, a British journalist, award-winning author and restaurant critic. Ramaswamy writes for The Guardian as a television critic and reviews restaurants for The Times Scotland and The Observer, alongside broadcasting for BBC radio. Her first book, Expecting: The Inner Life of Pregnancy, won the Saltire Society’s First Book of the Year Award, and her second, Homelands: The History of a Friendship, about her friendship with German Jewish refugee Henry Wuga, won the Saltire Society’s Non-Fiction Book of the Year.

Together, Stoner and Ramaswamy brought a shared Scottish connection and a mutual passion for food, culture and storytelling to the stage.

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