Tag: meat

  • IFWG Food Award Winner Peter Hannan awarded MBE

    Peter Hannan, managing director of multi-award winning Hannan Meats, has been awarded an MBE for his outstanding contribution to economic development in Northern Ireland. No stranger to the denizens of the Irish Food Writers’ Guild, Peter was presented with the Guild’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019 in recognition of his continued work as one of…

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  • No Kidding

    As goat meat is in season, Georgina Campbell hopes the world’s most popular meat may soon be featuring on more Irish menus. The goat is the most widely used farm animal in the world for its milk, cheese and meat – yet, astonishingly, we hardly use it at all here, except for cheese. It really…

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  • Irish Food Culture: A Game Of Two Halves, Where Those At The Bottom Will Suffer The Most

    By 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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  • Spiced Beef for Christmas

    By Honor Moore. Traditional Spiced Beef was made at Christmas. A piece or brisket was used as  the fat in these cuts of beef fat held the flavour of the spices.   Now it is more often made with a piece of “corned beef” with the spices being added afterwards  but it can be completely prepared…

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  • Game

    By Biddy White-Lennon. We are fond of game whether furred or feathered in our household. We live in an area rich in game and once the season starts Camolin Woods or the hill ridge above our house where I take my daily walk become hard hat areas. Mind you to be really safe from a…

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  • Bringing Home the Bacon

    By Georgina Campbell. St Patrick’s Day brings culinary thoughts around to traditional cooking, and March is a good time to remember the pig. It was probably the first domestic animal to be brought to Ireland and, although its absolute supremacy was later challenged by cattle and sheep, many will remember well that every country household…

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