-
Great Taste Awards: A Great British Scheme with Some Great Irish Winners
By 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…
-
Wild and Slow Fest 2012
By 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.…
-
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…
OUR BLOG