Food
Lovers News from Ireland
Welcome to Megabytes, an up-to-the-minute selection of news and reviews which will tell you everything you need to know about who and what is happening in contemporary Irish food.
Cult Success
A big pat on the back for Cork's Denis Cotter, chef-patron of the city's
sublime Café Paradiso, whose cookery book, imaginatively titled "'The
Café Paradiso Cookbook". has been shortlisted for the U.K. Guild of
Food Writers annual awards, for the prestigious Jeremy Round Award.
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More Leeside Success
University College, Cork has wisely bestowed a honorary doctorate on the
inimitable Myrtle Allen, of Shanagarry¹s Ballymaloe House.
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Eating the Young
We thought you might enjoy these tasty, if occasionally dyspeptic, morsels, selected by the UK Guild of Food Writers as their favourite food headlines of the year.
Include your children when baking cookies
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Delicious Drimcong, Open for One More Season
Gerry Galvin, of Galway's unique Drimcong House, continues to ply his
trade in the noble and sophisticated way that has been his signature for
three decades. The 2000 menus for Drimcong show a chef whose style edges
ever closer to utter simplicity: hot seafood gateau in wild garlic sauce;
lamb shank with savoury risotto; confit of duck with spiced lentils...
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Attaboy Athboy Boy!
Congratulations to Richard Corrigan, Meath-born chef at London's superb
restaurant, Lindsay House, who grabbed the award for Outstanding London
Chef in the recent Moet et Chandon London restaurant Awards.
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Slowly Does It
A recent Slow Food gathering of artisans and chefs at Bill Hogan's West
Cork Natural Cheese, just outside Schull, showed that the creativity amongst
West Cork artisans is as feverish as ever.
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Cookery Book Review
Jamie Oliver: The Return of the Naked Chef (Michael Joseph £20)
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