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Review: Food Producers at Bloom
The food market at Bloom in the Phoenix Park last weekend was one of the best I’ve visited in a long time. The gardens, helped by the blazing sun, were really beautiful, and there were also stands on growing your own food, beekeeping, and wildlife. Over 40 Irish producers were selling jams, cheeses, meats, fish,…
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Fallon & Byrne Christmas Fair, November 13, 4-9pm
Cork has the English Market. The closest thing we have is Fallon and Byrne, the food emporium on Exchequer Street which also happens to do one of the best lunch and dinner deals in Dublin. Today, from 4-9pm, Fallon & Byrne host their annual Christmas extravaganza. It’s a chance to meet producers, sample lots of…
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Allergy advice
One of my favourite hobbies is winding up my coeliac friend Simon, by asking him if he is also allergic to the tooth fairy, homoeopathic potions, and levitation.There are many coeliacs out there, but I suspect – and I refuse to offer any evidence whatsoever for this – that some people with a self-declared gluten…
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Snobbery against cheap food: How doing the right thing is a stick to beat the poor
Cheap eats. German discounters. Euro value shops. Big supermarkets. Iceland. We’ve often lambasted here for being excessively focused on the cheap. Or told that it’s immoral to not buy organic. Or that we should only eat Fairtrade or totally ethical produce. Or that decent humans buy from small, local producers at farmer’s markets, choosing fresh…
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More snazzy marketing: SuperValu's Eat Irish for a Week Campaign
For the Irish week that’s in it, here’s another ad that grabbed my attention: SuperValu’s Eat Irish for a Week campaign. Simple enough idea. Buy items from their shopping list and feed a family of four for a week for less than €100 a week using only Irish ingredients. SuperValu boast that 75 per cent…
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Best before and use-by: How to eat “gone off” food and not die
I felt very slightly queasy yesterday. The soup was four days past the use-by, but I ate it anyway because I couldn’t bear to let it go to waste. Ah, I was fine. Didn’t get sick or nothing. Grrrr… Later that day I came across some research from safefood Ireland, which showed that one in three…
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Product reviews: Smoothies, steak, booze and more at Aldi
Cheap, reliable, delicious, good value food? Aldi and Lidl are hard to beat. Aldi now commands a bigger share of the Irish grocery market than Lidl or Superquinn, and is growing rapidly in Ireland. Although Lidl have many delicious items – their Greek yoghurt is spellbinding – it’s Aldi that are winning the plaudits. In…
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A crisp complaint
Now, it’s really not like me to have a grievance at all, but… Don’t you hate when the size of the packet stays the same, but the contents shrink dramatically? Before I fled Ireland for the summer, a packet of Tayto’s gourmet treat, Mighty Munch, was the most recent offender. The bag was half full,…
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For Food’s Sake BBQ: Toner’s, Sat 11th Aug
You may have heard of some of the nifty events that For Food’s Sake have organised over the last year or two – such as movies paired with food in the Sugar Club and discussion evenings where producers talk about the future of food in Ireland. They have one coming up this weekend in Toner’s…
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Food & Wine Christmas Show: Review
I was hoping to head along to the Food & Wine Magazine Christmas Show this weekend but some last-minute work prevented me from going. So I asked my lovely friend and previous Cheapeats contributor Ruth to go along and send us her thoughts on the event. Here’s what she had to say: ‘I’ll be an…