Taste of Ulster TV

Barbara Collins, who is Channel Editor of Taste Of Ulster TV, introduces this exciting new resource

Jamie Oliver’s done it with Food Tube, now Taste of Ulster/Food NI has launched a brand new digital channel which showcases the very best of Northern Ireland food and drink.

The channel was launched by the Agriculture Minister, Michele O’Neill at this year’s Balmoral Show in the Food Pavilion. Among the first subscribers were the Secretary of State, Theresa Villiers, the Enterprise Minister, Jonathan Bell, NI Food Ambassador James McIntosh and Howard Hastings of Hastings Hotels and Tourism NI.

“We’re really excited about this. Nothing tells a story like pictures and there are so many food and drink stories to be told now,” says Michele Shirlow, CEO of Food NI.

The channel broadcasts twice a week on Sundays and Wednesdays. There are step-by-step recipes that you can recreate in your own kitchen. The stories of the hero ingredients in those recipes are also being told.

The crew has already been to Broughgammon to see how they rear goat kid meat and rose veal. There’s also been filming done inside Peter Hannan’s Himalayan Salt Chamber and at Irwin’s in Portadown where they make the iconic Nutty Krust batch loaf.

Carl Johannesson, Head Chef at James Street South Bar and Grill is in the studio kitchen, accompanied by Leona Kane of Broighter Gold Rapeseed Oil and Stephen Chisholm, winner of the Great Irish Bake Off, 2013. Stephen bakes at Oliver’s Coffee Bar in East Belfast and he’s rolling the dough for Taste of Ulster TV too.

Whet your appetite by searching for Taste of Ulster TV on You Tube. It’s free to subscribe. Just click on the Subscribe button on You Tube. If you click on the sun icon you can also get updates to your inbox.

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Barbara Collins is a BBC journalist and freelance food, travel and agricultural writer. She contributes regularly to Countryfile magazine, the Farmers Guardian, the Irish News, FFT and the Irish Mail on Sunday. She was Chief Food Writer for Flavour magazine. She is a member of both the UK and Irish Food Writers Guilds and splits her time between Belfast and Galway. Barbara also does menu consultancy and copywriting.

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