Louise Gray

Environmental journalist

Janet Henderson was a friend of my Granny’s and a trail blazer in vegetarian cooking. She set up Henderson’s Wholefoods in Edinburgh at a time when vegetarian cooking was relatively unknown – certainly in Scotland. The recipes are rather old fashioned, but hearty. Dishes like vegetarian haggis with clapshot and milk loaf. Henderson’s has never changed, and I don’t want it to. Going there for a plate of salad and a walnut brownie on a rainy day in the New Town will always be a joy.