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There is a sausage in Scotland so carefully guarded that only one place on earth is legally allowed to make it. Not one region. Not one county. One town. Stornoway, on the windswept Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, is home to Scotland’s most protected food. Photo: Shutterstock Traditional Scottish black pudding and sausages […]