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New Season Comber Potatoes EU PGI
Read more: New Season Comber Potatoes EU PGIBy Georgina Campbell. Ireland’s answer to the famed Jersey Royal early potato from the Channel Islands, the New Season Comber Potatoes (or Comber Earlies as they are also known) are this island’s flagship potato and one of only a small handful of products here to have the right to use the blue and yellow EU…
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Concrete Tiki: Programme of Food Events, Workshops and Experiments at IMMA this July
Read more: Concrete Tiki: Programme of Food Events, Workshops and Experiments at IMMA this JulyThe programme of Concrete Tiki reflects a current atmosphere of collaboration between food and art, while responding to the exhibition that will launch in IMMA at that time: a retrospective of the work of Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica that will run from July 19th to October 5th in the museum. Michelle Darmody, The Cake Café,…
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Forty One Restaurant
Read more: Forty One RestaurantRestaurant FortyOne recently invited a group of food writers on a special tour of their uniquely-located kitchen garden in Killiney, followed by a special meal in the restaurant in Residence on St. Stephen’s Green. Joe McNamee recounts. We traipse through the empty rooms of one of Ireland’s most salubrious Killiney mansion homes to access the…
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‘Somm Night’: Wine Tasting with Master Sommeliers at Galway Film Fleadh
Read more: ‘Somm Night’: Wine Tasting with Master Sommeliers at Galway Film FleadhThe 26th Galway Film Fleadh, in association with wine merchants Cases Wine Warehouse, are delighted to present an innovative sensory screening of Somm, a unique documentary which takes the viewer on a humorous, emotional and illuminating look into a mysterious world – the Court of Master Sommeliers and the massively intimidating Master Sommelier Exam. This…
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Cono Sur invites Ireland’s Food Bloggers to Submit an Original Recipe to Win a Trip for Two to Chile
Read more: Cono Sur invites Ireland’s Food Bloggers to Submit an Original Recipe to Win a Trip for Two to ChileCono Sur, Ireland’s premium Chilean wine brand, is launching a search to find the ultimate dish to match their Single Vineyard Sauvignon Blanc or Pinot Noir. The entrant with the most votes in Ireland will travel with a friend, compliments of Cono Sur, to compete in the Grand Finale held in Paris in November. Here…
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Comber Potato Festival on Saturday June 7th 2014
Read more: Comber Potato Festival on Saturday June 7th 2014The second Comber Potato Festival will take place in the town’s main square this Saturday from 10am-5pm. An array of Northern Ireland’s top food producers and chefs will be there, but the star of the show will be the superspud that is the Comber Early. This free event will be a celebration of this princely…
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Sharon Hearne-Smith’s New Cookbook, No Bake Baking
Read more: Sharon Hearne-Smith’s New Cookbook, No Bake BakingGuild member Sharon Hearne-Smith’s new cookbook, No Bake Baking, is about to hit the shelves and cause a bit of a stir in the world of baking. The no-bake approach is perfect for novices, cooking with kids or anyone who’s short on time, with fast and easy ideas for every occasion. In No-Bake Baking, Sharon…
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Easy Food Home-Cook Hero Awards
Read more: Easy Food Home-Cook Hero AwardsThe Easy Food Home-Cook Hero Awards Cookbook has just hit the shelves. Published annually in spring, the cookbook features 30 finalist recipes from the annual cookery competition, alongside over one hundred recipe favourites from Easy Food magazine. (Edited by Dee Laffan, editor of Easy Food, and published by Zahra Publishing. Available in supermarkets and newsagents…
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Paul Flynn’s Family Food
Read more: Paul Flynn’s Family FoodNone other than IFWG Chairperson, Lizzie Gore-Grimes, has edited Lidl’s new cookbook, written by celebrated chef Paul Flynn of the award-winning Tannery Restaurant in Dungarvan. This gorgeous, family-friendly cookbook is stacked with easy-to-follow recipes that use inventive flavour combinations to impress, rather than fussy culinary technique. No matter how little time you have on your…
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New Look Website
Read more: New Look WebsiteIt’s all go at the Irish Food Writers’ Guild this week. Not only are we going live with our new website, which we hope will better reflect all the interesting and varied work with which our dynamic members are involved, but we are also hosting our 20th annual IFWG Food Awards on Wednesday 12th March…