June 16, 2009
by Conor O'Neill
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Deeply important piece by Ivan on food security and our future. Don’t just read it, leave your thoughts too. The ability of a country to feed itself and have a sustainable agri-business must surely have been a major motivator of … Continue reading
May 19, 2009
by Conor O'Neill
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This is just a superb idea, well done to everyone involved! Why not enter? The inaugural Grow Bake Cook Awards Ceremony honours and celebrates the skills of amateur cooks, growers, bakers and preservers – in fact anyone with a talent for creating … Continue reading
April 13, 2009
by Conor O'Neill
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I love bread. Can’t put it any more simply than that. So when I hear that someone who lives just up the road from me is now making craft and organic breads and they are selling them at the Bandon … Continue reading
April 4, 2009
by Conor O'Neill
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I was enraged on Thursday whilst listening to the latest Restaurant Guys’ podcast. They were interviewing a New York restaurateur who is being picketed by fois gras protestors. These ugg-boot-wearing idiots think they can intimidate a small business owner and … Continue reading
March 29, 2009
by Conor O'Neill
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We’ve just had the third annual waste of time known as Earth Hour where millions of people worldwide pretend to do something useful about global warming and turn off lights for an hour. For 99.999999% of those people, that’ll be … Continue reading
January 11, 2009
by Conor O'Neill
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Pork & Sons I was given this lovely book for Christmas 2007 and finally finished it last month. What initially appears to be a coffee-table resident turned out to be one of the best books on food I’ve ever read. … Continue reading
January 8, 2009
by Conor O'Neill
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The Empire may have done its best to kill the pork industry in Ireland but the producers are fighting back. Barrie Tyner from Slow Food Ireland just let me know that the West Cork and Cork City Conviviums are coming together … Continue reading
January 7, 2009
by Conor O'Neill
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I just got a mail from the lovely people in The Good Things Cafe in Durrus to tell me that the awesome Carmel was on the Foodtalk programme on Newstalk Radio. Foodtalk is hosted by one of the best food … Continue reading
December 7, 2008
by Conor O'Neill
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So 47 farms used contaminated pig feed. Unless the FSAI confirms that Gubbeen or Caherbeg are two of those farms, I’ll be having a lovely bacon sarnie for my breakfast. If the State’s Chief Medical Officer says that dioxin is only … Continue reading
November 19, 2008
by Conor O'Neill
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When the Irish Blog Awards nominations open early next year, I’m pretty sure Ivan McCutcheon’s recent post about local West Cork abbatoirs and butchers will be the one I pick. If you care about the food you put in your … Continue reading