The Scottish spurtle has a silly-sounding name, but this fun tool might be what's missing from your breakfast routine.

Earlier this summer, I received a press release about a soon-to-be-published cookbook, “The Scottish Kitchen,” by chef Gary Maclean. As luck would have it, my husband and I had scheduled a ...

SIEGEL: The spurtle. The spurtle is a traditional Scottish kitchen tool. It is thought to be six centuries old. It's made out of wood and sort of looks like a thin, miniature baseball bat.

The winner in the former category takes home the "Golden Spurtle," a Scottish kitchen tool for stirring porridge, thought to have originated six centuries ago. Made of wood, it looks like a tiny ...

“The Scottish Kitchen” also features modern takes, like grilled lobster with warm tomato and basil salsa; pearl barley with roasted carrots; and pheasant with mushrooms, pearl onions and ...

The Baltics and in the last decade around her Scottish home. It takes a year of her cooking in her Edinburgh kitchen and through each dish that she’s preparing over 12 chapters, whisks us off to ...