A friend of mine once came home from a year spent in Edinburgh bearing a gift of a curiously carved wooden stick. “It’s a porridge-stirrer!” she declared, and while it went into the jar next to the ...

John Boa is the 2011 winner of the 19th Annual Golden Spurtle World Porridge Making Competition. He explains what a spurtle is and shares tips on how he likes to make his porridge. Keep KCRW ...

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An Scottish man won the prestigious 21st Golden Spurtle World Porridge Making Championships on Saturday. We learn from Dr. Izhar Khan about his secret to winning porridge. Goldilocks had no respect ...

"The star of the show should always be the porridge itself. Just let the oats sing!" Dogwoof has revealed the official trailer for a Scottish documentary film titled The Golden Spurtle, set in the ...

The Golden Spurtle is a documentary about porridge, but behind its loving shots of sumptuous oats and gruel-thin misfires is a meditation on ageing, community and the difficult necessity of letting go ...