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COINNEACH MACLEOD THE HEBRIDE AN BAKER

What's on your bucket list? Thrills and adventure? Travel to far-flung places? While Coinneach Macleod never actually sat down and wrote his out, it seems he has been living his dreams, quietly and unassumingly, for the last 25 years. You might recognise him now, though. Thanks to a pandemic-induced TikTok account that has clocked up almost 250,000 followers so far, the man known as the Hebridean Baker is mapping out where his bucket list is going to take him next. For Coinneach, who grew up on the isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, the thought of jetting off to Las Vegas to speak to devotees of his cookbooks is just as exciting as visiting his 93-year-old auntie, from whom he got his love of baking and cooking. “She has been making the same clootie dumpling recipe every week for the last 80 years,” he laughs.

“I thought

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