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TheTaste.ie is Thrilled to Announce our Partnership with Savour Kilkenny 2016 – Festival of Food

Savour Kilkenny will host its biggest festival yet this October bank holiday weekend (October 28th – 31st), celebrating a decade of delicious dining and demos in the Marble City. A festival first, Savour Kilkenny has teamed up with Gill books to feature exclusive demonstrations by some of Ireland’s most popular authors. Highlights include ‘Cooking for …

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Inaugural Athrú Conference Attracts International Acclaim

Following recent media coverage of the gender divide in Irish kitchens, Kai’s Jess Murphy set out with the goal of establishing a forum to highlight gender inequality in the Irish culinary and hospitality industry. Teaming up with fellow successful women in the food world such as Hilary O’Hagan Brennan, Director of Food at 3FE and …

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Nick Balla and Cortney Burns Bar Tartine - San Francisco

The Reluctant Trendsetters – Chefs Nick Balla & Cortney Burns of Bar Tartine, San Francisco

“We don’t drive where we don’t have to,” says Cortney Burns, one half of culinary couple behind the critically acclaimed Bar Tartine restaurant in San Francisco. Despite being in Ireland only two days it was she who led the way through the crowds at the Kerrygold Ballymaloe LitFest 2016, beyond the farm, along a shaded …

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Kerrygold Ballymaloe Literary Festival of Food and Drink 2016

Where Literature met Laughter – The Best of The Kerrygold Ballymaloe LitFest 2016

Going for a walk along the quiet country roads of East Cork with two of the most celebrated and innovative chefs in San Francisco is not usually how I spend my Sunday mornings, but this was no ordinary Sunday, this was day three of Ballymaloe LitFest – which for four years has attracted the rockstars …

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Kerrygold Ballymaloe Litfest 2016 Launches in Drury Buildings

The Kerrygold Ballymaloe Literary Festival of Food and Wine a.k.a. Litfest got underway last week with a star studded launch in Dublin’s Creative Quarter. The Drury Buildings was the venue for the launch of the festival which is taking place May 20th-22nd and was created by culinary duo Darina Allen and Rory O’Connell. Along with Jeanne …

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Ballymaloe Litfest Launch

Kerrygold Ballymaloe LitFest Holds its Inaugural UK Launch

The Kerrygold Ballymaloe Literary Festival of Food and Wine held it’s inaugural UK launch last night when this year’s programme was previewed to a full house at the Members’ Club at Quo Vadis in Soho. Co-Directors of the Kerrygold Ballymaloe Literary Festival of Food and Wine, sister and brother team Darina Allen and Rory O’Connell …

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Darina Allen Light Christmas Cake

Light Christmas Cake Recipe by Darina Allen

This light fruit christmas cake was Mummy’s favourite. She used royal icing and made a snow scene with Santa standing on top – thanks for the memories. Makes 35 pieces Ingredients: – 50g (2oz) whole almonds 200g (7oz) sultanas 200g (7oz) raisins – 100g (31/2oz) chopped candied peel – 50g (2oz) currants 50g (2oz) real glacé cherries, cut in …

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South African Journalist meets Darina Allen

South African journalists get a taste of Ireland with celebrated chef Darina Allen

Ireland’s world-class cuisine was highlighted in South Africa recently, when legendary chef Darina Allen attended an event in Cape Town hosted by Tourism Ireland and Irish Ambassador Liam MacGabhann. Tourism Ireland invited influential food and lifestyle journalists, including representatives of the Sunday Times (South Africa), SAfm radio and Woolworths Taste magazine, to come and meet …

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