My recent trip to the Waterford Festival of Food (Ireland) has many, many enjoyable moments but for me the outstanding event was the pop-up restaurant ‘The Brewer, the Blogger, the Baker’. Great food, great style and a great vibe. Here are my thoughts on the event. Wish you were there. In fact I wish I could relive it to sample more of the menu!
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When I lived in Ireland yoghurt was generally thin and sugary and quite unpleasant. It wasn’t until I had travelled to France, Belgium and Germany that I first had lovely sour yoghurt. Combining it with stewed fruit or fresh honey opened my tastebuds. For a very long time one could only dream of decent yoghurt in Ireland. In recent years Glenilen Farm has led the way out of the yoghurt wilderness and expanded into other fabulous dairy products. Here I catch up with co-owner, Valerie Kingston, as she talks about how the company she and her husband, Alan, was started and how it developed.
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Just in time for annual trade show Speciality Fine Food Fair 2011 which starts this Sunday 4th September in London I’m introducing a couple of irish food producers I hope you’ll find interesting. I’ve taken this opportunity to ask them some questions about their business so you can find out more about them before your visit to SFFF2011. These are some of my personal favourites and hopefully you’ll get a chance to see why.
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Everything is a couple of weeks early this year in the garden and it’s no exception in our neighbouring Common. We went foraging today and a short 20 minutes later we had gathered enough fruit for a quick cobbler (plus some sloes I’ll make into some sloe gin!). We plan to go back and forage properly but today’s short outing meant we had a lovely pud to round up our Sunday with.
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Shacklewell Nights has already made a name as a ‘go-to’ London supperclub. An invitation to one of their Restaurants In Residence evenings at Create 2011 meant I could at last experience Clare & Jonathan’s cooking. And they didn’t disappoint. Just a quick look at this Summer Berry Meringue and you know that the menu was a pleaser. It certainly was!
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