Tag Archives: Irish produce

Forget about gifting out of season imported flowers this spring and pay your mum the compliment of seeking out the real McCoy – beautiful Irish grown flowers. They’ll be so  much fresher than the usual cut flowers, they’ll last much … Continue reading →

Food on the Edge 2024 Food On The Edge (FOTE) returned to its spiritual home, Galway, for the 2024 symposium with the theme of Sense of Place. I like that this theme made the distinction from the oft-used taste of … Continue reading →

The Boyne Valley region has some serious advantages when it comes to promoting it as a visitor destination, not least its history and natural beauty. And, when it comes to food tourism, a group of dedicated people has done tremendous … Continue reading →

A recent event in Northern Ireland demonstrated just how effective collaboration in food and hospitality can be – and the impressive results that consistent support of grass roots initiatives can produce in a remarkably short time Celebrate, collaborate and inspire … Continue reading →

Sustainable Excellence celebrated at Irish Food Writers’ Guild Food Awards Irish Food Writers’ Guild advocates for ethical practices in Ireland’s food & drink sector “If we don’t address the crisis facing Ireland’s restaurant sector we will not only see the … Continue reading →

Aoife Carrigy chats to chef JP McMahon about his new Zoom-based cookery classes and the digital spaces that are opening up in response to the global pandemic “Just three or four months ago, if you suggested that people could do … Continue reading →

“Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are” (Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin) is a telling choice for the first of many well-chosen quotations in Margaret Hickey’s book, Ireland’s Green Larder (Unbound, Hardback £20; paperback £9.99; online sellers), … Continue reading →

The Euro-Toques Young Chef of the Year competition presented by La Rousse Foods held the contest finals recently in the professional kitchens of Dublin Cookery School in Blackrock and this years winner is Jack Lenards, a young chef mentored by … Continue reading →

If you need to be reminded how delicious and healthy Irish mussels are, look out for another of the very successful Bord Bia Flex Your Mussels Campaigns. Running for two weeks, from 22nd October to 4th November 2018, it will … Continue reading →

Hooked in Sligo is the Bord Bia Just Ask Restaurant of the Month for June. Selected by Georgina Campbell and Bord Bia, the Just Ask Restaurant of the Month rewards eating places across Ireland that demonstrate best practices in showing … Continue reading →