Tag: potatoes
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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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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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Famine Food
Read more: Famine FoodBy Lucy Madden. It’s difficult to imagine, in this world of choices, a subsistence diet based on one foodstuff. We have the privilege, although some might argue with the use of that word, to feed ourselves on a bewildering array of edible matter. We can chew what we want, we can become locavores, frugavores, vegans,…