Kirsty Gunn: Think food with Italy - we should with Scotland too

I am in Italy, visiting old friends, both of whom are from Scotland but who, for various reasons, have ended up living here. One married an Italian – with an amazing Italian style wedding held in the garden of her parents’ home in south Edinburgh many years ago, with money pinned to her dress, Italian cakes and Pino, the groom, greeting guests, like an extra from a Francis Ford Coppola movie, with the words “Don’t eat too much. Don’t eat too much. And leave early.”