Margaux and Ben Larg run popular creperie Salt and Pine in Tentsmuir Forest, near Leuchars, bringing a touch of France to Fife. Margaux, who hails from Nice, enjoys making crepes for tourists and locals who visit Tentsmuir Forest. She runs her popular crepe shack with her husband, Ben, where they make sweet and savoury crepes.
It’s ten years since the couple began their journey making crepes. And it all began from a conversation in a pub. Ben recalls: “It’s funny how I met a guy in a pub and he offered me a trailer, and all of a sudden, it changes your whole life.
“We got the first trailer for £500. “I couldn’t believe it. It was a friend of a friend – a German guy I knew.
“He knew this Russian guy who was selling crepes, who was going back to Russia and selling his trailer. “I thought, that’s the perfect job – French person, she’s got to know how to make crepes.” It turns out that Margaux didn’t know how to make crepes.
“I didn’t,” she admits through laughter, “we had to watch YouTube videos and take it from there.” From their first go at making crepes at a festival where they were “thrown in at the deep-end”, Ben and Margaux’s crepes have now become a Fife staple. From appearing at events around the country, they eventually settled on Tentsmuir Forest for their crepe shack.
“When we were kids,” recalls Ben, who grew up in Fife, “there used to be a small hut here. “But it just sold Mars bars and ice cream. It was pretty mi.
