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Anthony O’Toole explores the relationship between food, gathering and storytelling – and why the Centre of Food Culture Ireland’s flagship event, Samhain Festival of Food & Culture, matters
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Thinking back over our recent Irish Food & Hospitality Awards, every participant is very special and the highlights are too many to mention in one bite, but the Natural Food Awards collection of producers is always key to everything, and they provide the delicious foundation of the gala lunch. This year we had not only an great array in our regular food categories but, for the first time, all of the drinks for the welcome reception and to accompany the meal were supplied by Irish producers...
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For anyone unfamiliar with the story of Irish whiskey, the press release that accompanied Oisín Davis’s new book The Irish Whiskey Cookbook: 50 Recipes to Cook, Sip and Savour provided a great introduction: “Boom, bust and boom again – a five-word synopsis of the Irish whiskey industry over the last couple of hundred years...
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This month Darina recalls a fascinating Irish Food Writers’ Guild outing to the beautiful Orchard County
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Winners of the Georgina Campbell 2026 Irish Food & Hospitality Awards announced
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Anthony O’Toole Shares Lessons from the 2026 Chef's Manifesto Action Hub at OmVed Gardens, London
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During this spell of gorgeous weather, we've been feasting on huge salads. The garden is bursting with beautiful produce, there are scarcely enough meal slots to enjoy and celebrate it all and the work of the heroic gardeners who sowed the seeds many months ago.
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Our travels around the country this year have been brilliant so far, thanks to the exceptional weather and – envisaging it from a visitor’s point of view as always – it’s a particular pleasure to find authentic experiences, warm hospitality and quality food with a real Irish feel in popular tourist destinations...
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Darina has been on her travels again, in search of everything that’s best in natural food, sustainability and biodiversity – and this time she headed for County Clare
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The June bank holiday weekend had plenty going for it this year – not least the sunshine – and Bord Bia Bloom celebrated its 20th year of transforming a (very) large site in the Phoenix Park into Ireland’s biggest festival of gardening, food, and sustainable living. It was especially exciting in the early days, because we’d never had anything like this before in Ireland and, being relatively small and pleasingly personal, it stood up surprisingly well against the obvious point of comparison, Chelsea. Two decades on, Bloom has been mindfully developed and, while much bigger – really too much of interest to do justice to on a one day visit now – it has retained a sense of connection as you’re bound to see familiar faces at every turn.
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