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A Great Day in Slane at the Irish Food Writers’ Guild Summer Outing 2013
Read more: A Great Day in Slane at the Irish Food Writers’ Guild Summer Outing 2013By Aoife Carrigy. Where can you go that’s less than an hour’s drive from Dublin and where – within a five mile radius of one picturesque town – you could gather together the makings of not one but several great meals? That’s what we wondered when putting together ideas for the Irish Food Writers’ Guild…
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What’s In A Name?
Read more: What’s In A Name?By Lizzie Gore-Grimes. There are so many wonderful ways to enjoy food – eating it, of course, is best. But talking about it comes a close second. They say we eat with our eyes, and a well-presented plate does, indeed, set the saliva glands going, but what about eating with our ears? Isn’t there something…
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Remembering: Honor Moore
Read more: Remembering: Honor MooreGuest ‘Food for Thought’ writer Kieran Fagan remembers the late Honor Moore, former President of the Irish Food Writers’ Guild. Honor Moore, the doyenne of Irish food writers for more than half a century, died on May 29, 2013, a day after her 90th birthday. She was president of the Irish Food Writers’ Guild and…
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Remembering the late Gerry Galvin: chef, food writer, poet and dear friend to many in the Irish food industry
Read more: Remembering the late Gerry Galvin: chef, food writer, poet and dear friend to many in the Irish food industryBy Georgina Campbell. It was with great sadness that we learned of the untimely death of Gerry Galvin earlier this year – friend, colleague and inspiration for so many years. It’s hard to believe he’s gone, he was a gentlemanly giant of the hospitality world, quietly involved with so many good things right up to…
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Remembering the late David Tiernan of Glebe Brethan cheese
Read more: Remembering the late David Tiernan of Glebe Brethan cheeseBy Aoife Carrigy. On Monday 25th February 2013, on what should have been the 55th birthday of the late and much lamented David Tiernan, many of Ireland’s broad family of food producers, promoters, writers, chefs and farmers travelled across the country to Dunleer, Co Louth. They came to pay their last respects to a man…
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Irish Food Culture: A Game Of Two Halves, Where Those At The Bottom Will Suffer The Most
Read more: Irish Food Culture: A Game Of Two Halves, Where Those At The Bottom Will Suffer The MostBy Suzanne Campbell. As the horsemeat scandal widens to include giant food labels like Nestle and the world’s biggest beef processor JBS, again we see food fraud happening not at farm level but at secondary processing level and the trade of ‘beef’ in a snakes and ladders game encompassing a global set of players. In…
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A Private Audience With Gordon Ramsay
Read more: A Private Audience With Gordon RamsayBy Myles McWeeney. It is certainly not every day you get Gordon Ramsay cooking up a storm for you personally. Recently I was fortunate enough to meet him in the Ritz Carlton in Powerscourt, when the hyper-busy restaurateur was on one of his rare visits to his eponymous restaurant, Gordon Ramsay at Powerscourt. The space…
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Great Taste Awards: A Great British Scheme with Some Great Irish Winners
Read more: Great Taste Awards: A Great British Scheme with Some Great Irish WinnersBy Georgina Campbell. Winning awards certainly helps to sell food products. But, as credibility and consumer trust are key to the long-term value of food awards, there’s plenty that those aspiring to run similar schemes in Ireland could learn from Britain’s Great Taste Awards. Once again this year, Ireland punched way above her weight in…
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Wild and Slow Fest 2012
Read more: Wild and Slow Fest 2012By Biddy White Lennon. Following on the amazing success of Wild and Slow Fest 2011, the first ever wild food festival, the crew of volunteers from the Sugarloaf Club Slowfood convivium are delighted to announce that Wild and Slow Fest 2012 will take place on 10th and 11th November at Macreddin Village, Aughrim, Co Wicklow.…
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What Is Good Food?
Read more: What Is Good Food?By Lucy Madden. What is good food? There is no consensus on this – far from it – and unlike the universal acknowledgement of what, say, constitutes good scenery, ideas of what contributes to a good meal differ widely. This is strange in some ways because you might assume that human bodies everywhere have the…