McCune Smith cafe

James McCune Smith was an intellectual, abolitionist, and was the first African American to hold a medical degree and graduated at the top in his class at the University of Glasgow. The café bearing his name serves a combination of wonderful locally sourced food - and history, with particular regard to Glasgow’s East End. Coffee is good, served at the correct temperature. Sandwiches are full-on artisan named after Scottish intellectuals like David Hume, Robet Hume and Lord Kames. The James McCune Smith sandwich is a New York Deli Classic -  pastrami, gherkin and caper relish, and gouda on light rye. Smith was one of the Committee of Thirteen in New York, who organized in 1850 to resist the newly-passed Fugitive Slave Law by aiding refugee slaves. Soon Glasgow University is planning to raise his profile as an important alumnus.