Category: Food Industry
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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…