Jan. 25: Robert Burns Night at Kennett

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Jan. 25: Robert Burns Night at Kennett

POSTED: Monday, January 17, 2011, 5:24 PM

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Scottish penman Robert Burns â doesn't he kinda look like Casey Affleck? â is probably most famous for Auld Lang Syne, but that year-ending bit of verse is just one of dozens of classic works by the Ploughman's Poet. For years now, Scots and Scotophiles alike have been celebrating Burns' legacy with a traditional "Burns Dinner," where the haggis piles teeter-totter and the whisky flows like the River Tay. Queen Village's new Kennett (848 S. Second St.) pays filling homage to Burns next week with a thematic supper of its own, scheduled for Tuesday, Jan. 25 (Burns' birthday). Chef Brian Ricci will start serving a menu of Scottish specialties â Scotch eggs, bannock buns, cullen skink (smoked haddock soup), rumbledethumps (a very-U.K. cheesy-gooey cabbage/potato/onion mash), and housemade haggis bangers â at 7:30 p.m. Reps from UPenn's poetry department will handle a recitation of Burns' famous Address to the Haggis â great chieftain o' the puddin' race! â around 9 p.m.

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