Neil MacLean, Scottish Daily Mail, 9 October 1999

"My courses aren't for the faint hearted," says Rosemary Shrager. She was right... "I love it when people are scared. Because then they actually learn something." ...

In truth Amhuinnsuidhe makes almost too good a setting... Though it was plain we were on holiday and could skip classes, few would opt to miss one of Rosemary's daily performances as she marshalled us into creating lunch and then constructing dinner. She's an extraordinary woman; ebullient, funny, enthusiastic, frighteningly intense, with a voice which will knock you off your feet...

The only time she met her match was when Effie Morrison, from a nearby village, came to demonstrate how to make Hebridean scones, oat cakes and her celebrated clootie dumpling, a traditional steam pudding. So impressed was a manager from Stringfellows who attended the course earlier this year, he was determined to take her back to the London nightclub with him. He just fell in love with her clootie dumplings, said Rosemary, conjuring up an appealing image of Hebridean home-baking being passed around the nightclub.