Dundee Is Famous For Jute Jam and Journalism

D undee flourished between         was invented by Janet Keillor.     1700 and 1900 primarily         They had ordered Oranges from      because of the jute             Seville which arrived late         industry. At one time it was said     sometime around 1700 and were      that there were more millionaires     very bitter. Janet Keillor         per head of population in Dundee      managed to make the original       then anywhere else in the world!      recipe for marmalade. Her son                                            then developed the recipe further  At one point, jute employed more      and made Keillor's jams and        people in Dundee then all the         marmalades famous throughout the   other industries combined. Then       world.                             due to competition from Asia the                                         jute industry slowly died a           This story is probably not one     death. Now there are only a few       hundred percent true as some       people employed in the jute           types of marmalade were probably   industry in Dundee.                   being eaten in Spain and Portugal                                        before this late shipment of       Verdant Works is a restored           bitter oranges arrived in Dundee.  working museum where jute is          Marmalade is a sweet sticky        still produced today. You can see     condiment that tastes great on     for yourself how jute was             toast at breakfast time. It is     manufactured and learn more about     not to everybody's liking though   the rise and decline of the jute      with many people and especially    industry. At its peak over 500        children who find it unpalatable.  people were employed at Verdant                                          Works. Conditions must have been      Although Dundee was famous for     tough for the workers because the     its jams the number of people      factory is not that large!            employed in the industry was                                             small compared to jute and         It has been said that marmalade       journalism. As competition grew    in the late 1900s the factory         and working in the city. As the    struggled to make any profits.        industry has slowly died younger   The Keillor factory was bought by     people and especially graduates    the Okhai family in the 1980s but     are leaving to work in the larger  they were unable to make the          cities. Now it has a population    business profitable and it            of around a hundred and forty      eventually closed down.               thousand.                                                                                                   Journalism still thrives in           Dundee is a beautiful place to     Dundee today. The business owned      live sitting on "the Banks of the  by the DC Thomson family created      Bonny Bay." The Law is at the      many famous characters including      centre of Dundee and was at on     Dennis the Menace, Desperate Dan,     point an active volcano. Now you   Billy Whiz and the Bash Street        can drive up to the top and from   Kids. They publish The Courier        this vantage point see all the     newspaper, Sunday Post, Scots         four corners of Dundee.            Magazine, Weekly News as well as                                         the Beano, Dandy. According to        Dundee is a great place to visit   their own figures they publish        if you want to see Scotland.       over 200 million newspapers and       Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow    magazines each year.                  are all within an hours reach.                                           Perth and St Andrews (the home of  Dundee at its peak had over two       golf) are both within twenty       hundred thousand people living        minutes drive.                     About the Author: Chris Fawcett - CityLocal Dundee Dundee Dundee Events Dundee Free Adverts Read more articles by: Chris Fawcett Article Source: www.iSnare.com