Fiona Piper, owner of The Little Rose Cottage in Old Town

Do you cook a lot yourself? What is your failsafe dish?

Yes. My failsafe dish is baked salmon, mash potatoes and roasted vegetables.

Where do you like to eat out? How often?

I like Prezzo, Ask and Loch Fyne. I eat out a few times a month.

What do you always hope to find on a menu? For starter? Main course?

I always look for amazing desserts. For starter, calamari. For main course, excellent steak. For dessert, crème brûlée.

Which foods did you hate as a child? Do you eat them now?

Liver, fish and lumpy vegetable soup. I eat them now except the liver!

What is your favourite drink? Alcoholic and non-alcoholic.

Talisker whisky straight up and elderflower water.

Marmite: yes or no?

Yes.

What is your guilty pleasure when it comes to food... something you know you shouldn’t eat, but do anyway?

A lot of cakes.

You are on your own at home watching a film. What is you snack of choice?

Sweet and salty popcorn.

You’re eating a bacon sandwich...ketchup, brown sauce or nothing at all?

Brown sauce, but just a little!