Best NeighbourFood Podcasts (2024)

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Traditional Irish Baking with a Modern Twist. Food Memories and Flavours with Graham Herterich, aka The Cupcake Bloke 48:46

1y ago48:46

48:46

Today’s episode is all about fond food memories and Irish bakes with none other than Graham Herterich, aka the CupCake Bloke. He takes us on a nostalgic journey, exploring the power of food memories and the influence they have had on his life. From growing up in a butcher shop, to joining the priesthood, working with top chefs, to cooking with his …

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Street Feast, a lovely lunch with your neighbours and chat with founder Sam Bishop 1:03:55

1y ago1:03:55

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Welcome to the NeighbourFood Podcast, today we have a special replay episode for you as we gear up for Street Feast 2023. We're joined by the incredible Sam Bishop, a true force of nature in the realm of community activation. Sam is a remarkable individual—a community activist, an initiator, and a doer. He's the kind of person who not only has bril…

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Irish Whiskey History Unveiled: Insights from Eric Ryan, Powers Distiller 1:17:46

1y ago1:17:46

1:17:46

Welcome back to another episode of the NeighbourFood Podcast! Today we have a treat in store for all the whiskey aficionados out there. Our guest is Eric Ryan, a true expert in the world of whiskey, a historian with an unrivaled knowledge of Irish whiskey's captivating past. He is going to take us on a deep dive into the treasures of our national s…

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Small Steps, Big Impact. Dr. Tara Shine's guide to saving our planet one object at a time. 43:47

1y ago43:47

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Today we have a shining star joining us to chat on the NeighbourFood podcast. Dr. Tara Shine is an Irish environmental scientist, policy advisor and science communicator. She spent 20 years as an international climate change negotiator and adviser to governments and world leaders on environmental policy. She was Special Adviser to the Mary Robinson…

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Mary Reynolds on healing and restoring our natural world through the process of building an ARK (Acts of Restorative Kindness) 58:52

1y ago58:52

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Our guest today on the NeighbourFood podcast is Mary Reynolds, one of Ireland's leading advocates for nature. She describes herself as a reformed landscape gardener who won the Chelsea Flower Show in 2002. Mary is also an author and public environmental activist, and in this conversation today, we focus on her present campaign of healing the earth …

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Eating your Art out. Artist Kari Cahill's Site-Specific approach using Nature and Food-Based Paints 51:49

1+ y ago51:49

51:49

Artist Kari Cahill joins us in this edition of the NeighbourFood podcast. Kari is a site-responsive visual artist, natural paint smith, and an all-around great person. During our chat, she shares her unique methods of creating site-specific artwork using nature and how food can be used to make paint. Kari talks about her relationship with art and f…

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The Beauty of the Irish Flower Industry: Anna Hogan from Seekings Flower Farm Shares Her Insight 49:55

1+ y ago49:55

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As spring arrives, the blooming flowers bring joy and colour to our surroundings, evoking emotions that words cannot express. Beyond their beauty, flowers have healing properties used in medicine and play a crucial role in maintaining a healthy ecosystem. In this episode of the NeighbourFood Podcast, we have a conversation with Anna Hogan, a flower…

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Wild Foods. Nettles, Mushrooms, Music & More with Fiona Falconer of Wild About and musician and forager Peter Broderick 49:48

1+ y ago49:48

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“You could eat your dinner out of the ditch” that’s what Fiona Falconer of Wild About tells us in this week’s podcast which is all about Wild Food. It’s abundant, free, full of adventure, resourceful and sustainable and celebrates the beauty and bounty of our landscape. So we discuss why it’s important to eat from our natural surroundings and what …

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Knead to know. A chat with the microbakers of Ireland featuring Laura O’Donovan of So-Doh Renvyle, Gráinne McGough of Grá Arán and Angela Nöthlings of Ryes & Shine. 47:22

1+ y ago47:22

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This week we are chatting to three different microbakers from different parts of Ireland, who bake real bread using only flour, water and salt, for local customers within their local communities. Our guests are Angela Nöthlings, Ryes & Shine, Cork; Laura O’Donovan So-Doh, Renvyle, Connemara and Gráinne McGough of Grá Arán, Wicklow These are three s…

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Ireland’s ecological landscape and our role for nature’s survival with Pádraic Fogarty, Irish Wildlife Trust 52:03

1+ y ago52:03

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Pádraic Fogarty is an ecologist and environmental scientist, chairman of the Irish Wildlife Trust from 2009-2013, editor of 'Irish Wildlife' magazine from 2009 to 2017 and currently acts as their campaign officer. He is author of 'Whittled Away - Ireland's Vanishing Nature', published in 2017. In this episode of the NeighbourFood podcast, we chat w…

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Revolution Farm and Kitchen, an urban farm rethinking our food systems by growing mushrooms from spent coffee grounds 39:32

1+ y ago39:32

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Revolution Farm and Kitchen are rethinking our food systems. This is science, flavour, community and environmental care all wrapped into one. Using spent coffee grounds collected from the University College Dublin campus, the team grows fresh oyster mushrooms in a customised, retrofitted shipping container on site. The mushrooms are then used to cr…

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Food Business Coach Tracie Daly reflects on her career and speaks about challenges and survival strategies for food business owners today 57:07

1+ y ago57:07

57:07

The vivacious Tracie Daly is our guest today. This lady is a whirlwind of enthusiasm. Her wealth of knowledge and extensive experience in the food and hospitality industry is sure to captivate you. Since a dot, food has always been a way of life for Tracie. In every area food were the connection, the glue, and the backbone. Today she is a Food-Busi…

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Irish CBD oil producers and hemp farmers Daniel Lyons and Laura Jane Foley on Wild Atlantic Hemp & Hemp4Soil Project 45:09

1+ y ago45:09

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Daniel Lyons and Laura Jane Foley have been growing hemp in County Clare since 2018 under the name Wild Atlantic Hemp. The husband and wife team have trialed different varieties of hemp on their farm to see what suited the growing conditions on the aptly-named Wild Atlantic Way. They process the flower of the plant to make cannabidiol (CBD) oil fro…

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Well Red & Well Fed with Kristen Jensen, Irish cookbook and food magazine publisher 1:01:22

1+ y ago1:01:22

1:01:22

Imagine the job of copying, editing, proofreading, developing and testing recipes…. and collaborating with Ireland’s best-known, award-winning food writers and chefs, including, Neven Maguire, Darina Allen, Rory O’Connell, The Happy Pear and many more. Imagine beavering away for many years as a freelancer, unknown behind the scenes, quietly testing…

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Bites, Delights and a book called WOK with Kwanghi Chan 34:51

1+ y ago34:51

34:51

Kwanghi Chan has many fingers in many pies. He is a Hong Kong born, Donegal man, arriving in Ireland at the young age of 8 and his first experience was cooking in his uncle's Chinese takeaway. From head chef at Michelin Star “House”, three bricks and mortar premises called “Bites by Kwanghi” to two food trucks of the same name, a spice and other As…

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The GIY Diaries. A year of growing and cooking with Michael Kelly 48:46

1+ y ago48:46

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Our guest today is Micheal Kelly: founder of GIY “Grow It Yourself”. He is a social entrepreneur, author, TV presenter and grower and GIY is now a leading social enterprise, with its home, GROW HQ, in Waterford. Mick also co-presented and produced three series of Grow Cook Eat for RTÉ and will present the upcoming series Food Matters in 2023. In t…

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Valentia Island Vermouth. A love story of two ladies, a remote Irish island and a passion for vermouth 1:27:54

2y ago1:27:54

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Our guests today are Anna and Orla Snook O’Carroll who are the wife-and-wife team proudly making Ireland’s very first vermouth from 20 different botanicals on Valentia Island off the Kerry Coast! Inspired by the island, epic landscape, botanicals they could forage locally and a love of Vermouth, they set off on their own dream of creating a brand n…

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Fermoyle Pottery. Creating signature ceramics for unique dishes. A chat with Stephen O’Connell and Alexis Bowman. 56:19

2y ago56:19

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Based on the far western reaches of the Island of Ireland, Ballinskelligs Co. Kerry, Fermoyle Pottery Studio bring an approach to pottery close to the process of modern chefs. Sourcing materials from around them, Stephen and Alexis create bespoke pieces for the best eateries across Ireland, Singapore, London, Paris, Greece and Holland. A truely out…

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Ballymaloe Desserts with JR Ryall. The sweet journey of publishing a cook book 50:44

2y ago50:44

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The Ballymaloe Dessert trolley is probably one of the most famous dessert stations around. It even got global recognition at the world restaurant awards in Paris in 2019. For decades, visitors to Ballymaloe House have looked forward to finishing a delcious meal with something sweet from their tempting dessert trolley. JR Ryall, Head Pastry Chef and…

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Foxglove Cocktail Queen Tara Copplestone tells us of her journey to Cocktail Kingdom and gives us tips for sips. 47:00

2y ago47:00

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Google defines Artisan as “made in a traditional or non-mechanized way using high-quality ingredients.” but we believe it’s much more than just being a food maker. When you buy from an artisan, you also buy from a small business owner, who makes their own artisanal products. One great advantage of a strong culture of support for artisans is the opp…

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A life in Food with Yasmin Hyde, Ballymaloe Foods as part of Cork on a Fork Food Festival with Cork City Council 35:22

2y ago35:22

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Yasmin Hyde is the founder of Ballymaloe Foods, an internationally known and much loved Irish family food company, and daughter of Irish food hero Myrtle Allen. In this fascinating conversation, she gives us an insight into her upbringing and the huge influence her parents have played in both her personal and business life. We speak about early mem…

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Avril Allshire-Howe chats about her family's free range pig farm and connecting with nature 29:37

2y ago29:37

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Avril Allshire-Howe, along with her husband Willie and their two sons, William and Maurice, farms a herd of 100 crossbred pigs in Caherbeg, County Cork. It all started when Avril from West Cork and Willie from Carrigaline were looking for some land in the countryside and bought a house with running water on 3 acres. This expanded over time and sinc…

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Islander Kelp - a look at kelp farming in Ireland and the benefits of seaweeds to us all 29:50

2y ago29:50

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This week we are chatting to Kate Burns, founder, and CEO of Islander Rathlin Kelp. They are based on Rathlin Island, a small boot-shaped island between Ireland and Scotland, at the intersection of where the Atlantic Ocean meets the Irish Sea which as a result has some of the strongest tides in Ireland. In this conversation we learn about island li…

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Brave Herders. Dexter cattle farming with father and son duo Jerry & Conor O'Riordan 35:18

2y ago35:18

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Welcome to the NeighbourFood podcast. Our guests this week are father and son duo Jerry and Conor O'Riordan, who along with their brother Diarmuid have formed a cooperative of Dexter Cattle farmers in Munster called The Brave Herders. We spoke to them about their own family farm, why and how Jerry transitioned from dairy farming into dry cattle, wh…

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Potato Potato - Ireland's love affair with the humble spud (replay) 38:45

2y ago38:45

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This week, we decided to revisit a classic episode from the NeighbourFood podcast archives. As you may have heard, the World Potato Congress that was recently hosted in Dublin, we felt this was a topical and fun episode and a fun look at Ireland’s love affair with the humble spud. Throughout this episode we have with lots of contributors who tell u…

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Busy with Bees, a chat with beekeeper Mark Riordan of HiveMind.ie 45:17

2y ago45:17

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Honeybees are an integral part of our natural world. They pollinate the majority of our crops and trees, giving us the food we eat and the air we breathe. Not only important for our ecosystem, but also for our economy as bees and other pollinators are responsible for a third of our food and contribute billions to the global economy each year. It’s …

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Black Pudding, the story of Irish cuisine told through this ordinary and extraordinary food, with food writer Kate Ryan of flavour.ie 1:01:23

2y ago1:01:23

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Black pudding, blood sausage, and for Irish and UK listeners this food will need no introduction. Loved on breakfast plates across the country, did you know that Black Pudding tells the story of modern Irish cuisine through its ingredients, history, recipe hand me downs and much more? We speak to food writer, Kate Ryan of flavour.ie who recently pe…

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A chat with Sam Bishop, founder of Street Feast, a lovely lunch with your neighbours 1:03:46

2y ago1:03:46

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We are chatting to community hero Sam Bishop this week. As well as many other strings to his bow, Sam is the founder of Street Feast; Ireland’s national day of community lunches which this year takes place on June 26, 2022. This is all about building community and tackling isolation, getting together with your neighbours to share food and enjoy con…

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Gaelic Escargot - snail farming in Ireland with Eva Milka 38:37

2y ago38:37

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Snail farming is a pretty unusual one, at least for Ireland. But not for Carlow based snail farmer Eva Milka who started her business Gaelic Escargot (@gaelic_escargot) back in 2013 after a visit to France and discovering the delicacy. Now running the business with her partner Eoin, she told us about all the great things that this clean, sustainabl…

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The Food Scene in Dingle with Mark Murphy of Dingle Cookery School 42:29

2y ago42:29

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This week we are chatting to Irish food champion Mark Murphy, a Carlow man based in Dingle, Co. Kerry who filled us in on all things happening on the Peninsula. No stranger to our ears, you will Mark on the Today FM with his weekly recipes and regular TV slots on RTÉ. So without doubt, this was a lively and fun chat about all things Dingle, from Fu…

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All about Apples - from history, commercial and community growing to cider making 44:20

2y ago44:20

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Don’t you love a good crunchy apple? The sweetness of it never lets you down. Did you know that Ireland’s commercial apple growing scene isn’t really developed…. Or we should say, it was at one point and now it is not! Even though we have an ideal climate for growing apples amongst other great fruit. Apples are an integral part of Irish culinary cu…

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Organic Fitness with fitness trainer and organic grower Colman Power 39:00

2y ago39:00

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Following the chocolate fest of Easter, we got a craving for some goodness, so we reached out to organic fitness expert Colman Power. Colman is a fitness trainer as well as an organic grower, and he’s a great advocate for combining healthy nutritious food with exercise and movement to provide an all-round balanced and healthy lifestyle. Colman has …

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A Chocoholic Special with Hungry Crow Chocolates 35:23

2+ y ago35:23

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Did you know that over 650 million chocolate Easter eggs are sold in Ireland each year to the tune of over €44million! That’s a lot of sugary goodness, but why chocolate and why eggs after our traditional Lenten fast? In this easter special episode we find out these answers as well as learn that chocolate has many health benefits! And for this choc…

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Money for Jam. Keeping your food business sustainable, profitable and competitive with author and food business expert Oonagh Monahan 58:10

2+ y ago58:10

58:10

The topic of our discussion today is Money for Jam and the importance of keeping your food business sustainable, profitable and competitive. Despite the fact that this discussion is focused on food businesses, anyone with a spark for entrepreneurship will find it helpful. Our guest today is food business professional and author Oonagh Monahan. She …

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A lesson in composting with Donal O'Leary, of Waste Down, the king of compost! 59:43

2+ y ago59:43

59:43

Today we are chatting to Donal O’ Leary, environmental consultant and composting king!. This is a super informative fun episode that smashes all myths and tricks about home composting! Donal is on a mission to get us all to composting, from complete beginners to people who need a bit of guidance on getting their composting formula right. Everyone c…

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Can Ireland Feed Itself? in conversation with Ruth Hegarty, Egg & Chicken 45:01

2+ y ago45:01

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Have you heard that European Farmers need to start growing wheat? If you hadn’t, following the news of the war in Ukraine; food policy makers across the EU started to talk about shortages of certain crops, particularly wheat! This is due to the large volumes of wheat that Europe has been importing from Ukraine (and indeed Russia) and the inevitable…

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How I set up my Market Garden, a personal story with Erik Johansson of Cuskinny Court. 46:24

2+ y ago46:24

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Continuing on our theme of setting up a market garden, we find out what it takes from Erik Johnnason, who along with his wife Katrina took a blind leap of faith and set one up as the pandemic took hold and their business and income plans were suddenly put on the line. The couple run Cuskinny Court, a historic property, hosting lots of outdoor group…

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Setting up a market garden with GIY's Head Grower, Richard Mee 45:10

2+ y ago45:10

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One thing we are always asked is to get stuck into some growing info. So for this week and next, we are going to look into the nitty-gritty of setting up a market garden. If you’ve ever thought this might be a career or business choice for you, then this podcast will hopefully shed some light on lots of the questions and considerations you need to …

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The joy of a good cook book and feeding the family with food writer, photographer and creator Lilly Higgins 45:10

2+ y ago45:10

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This week’s guest is a freelance food writer, photographer, and creator and has written extensively for publications such as The Irish Times, The Sunday Business Post, Easy Food Magazine, Image Interiors, and Living Magazine, and more, over the last 12 years. She is a TV chef and was the recent winner of the Cookery Writing Award from the newly lau…

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Blooming Beautiful, an insight into the Irish flower industry with Anna Hogan from Seekings Flower Farm 49:31

2+ y ago49:31

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Spring is in the air, and with the flowers blooming it’s hard not to smile when you see these joyous bursts of colour. Not only do flowers brighten your day, but they are also super romantic and express emotions that sometimes words just cannot. We also love the creativity that comes with flowers from the colour, the shape, the textures and the bea…

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Food Waste is NOT Waste with Virginia O’Gara of CUSP 48:43

2+ y ago48:43

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“Food waste shouldn't be waste. The way we see it is a resource that is full of nutrients and it should be kept here for us to make it into something usable.” And that’s what CUSP, the Cork Urban Soil Project is all about. It is a living laboratory for a strong, environmentally driven community made up of friends, creatives, workers and supporters …

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NeighbourFood Podcast Trailer 2:29

2+ y ago2:29

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Welcome to the NeighbourFood Podcast and we are your hosts Jack and Joleen and here we talk all-things-food with the people who make it, bake it, grow it and eat it. This is the podcast to learn more about our food; the history behind it; explore ways we can eat better; celebrate our artisan food community and understand the food issues that face u…

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Irish Farmhouse Cheese with Siobhán Ní Ghairbhith, St Tola Goat Cheese & CÁIS, Irish Farmhouse Cheese Association 47:41

2+ y ago47:41

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“You could say blessed are the cheese makers, but among ourselves we say mad are the cheese makers” jokes Siobhán Ní Ghairbhith, cheesemaker at St. Tola Irish Goat Cheese, who is also involved in CÁIS, Irish Farmhouse Cheesemaker Association and the Irish Raw Milk Cheese Presidia. Siobhán tells us all about the Irish farmhouse cheese industry, whic…

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Raw Milk. Should we drink it? 36:16

2+ y ago36:16

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Who doesn’t love a glass of creamy nutritious milk full of protein, vitamins, and minerals? In this week’s episode, we explore raw milk. With the growing popularity of natural, local, farm-sourced foods many people are now consuming raw milk which is basically milk directly from the cow in its purest form, with minimal intervention. The most import…

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Food & Environment with Dr. Colin Sage 48:54

2+ y ago48:54

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This week we are chatting to Dr. Colin Sage (@envirofood) about food and its impacts on the world around us. Colin is an academic strongly committed to public engagement; he co-founded and served as Chair (2013-19) for the Cork Food Policy Council. He retired as Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography at UCC and now works as an independent s…

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Urban farming in Dublin city centre with Marty Matthews of "The Gnomes" 42:19

2+ y ago42:19

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This week we are chatting to young-urban-farmer, Marty, AKA one of The Gnomes. The Gnomes are brothers Raymo, Shane, Marty, and lifelong friend Jason. Together they are hosting a productive micro urban farm on a quarter of an acre, on the grounds of Dublin City University community garden. As you may know, this month we have been chatting to The Ne…

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Cork Rooftop Farm, urban farming with Brian McCarthy 48:27

2+ y ago48:27

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In this week's episode, we are continuing our explorations of the next generations of people working in Irish Food and chatting to Brian McCarthy, co-founder of Cork Rooftop Farm. This is an urban farm, unlike others. It was set up by Brian McCarthy and his friend Thay Carlos as a lockdown project back in March 2020. He says himself they were only …

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Darina Allen inspiring the next generation 51:40

2+ y ago51:40

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To commence the new year, we are bringing you stories of the new generation and young people working in Irish food. But to kick things off, we are commencing this series with Darina Allen of Ballymaloe Cookery School, one of the most influential people in Irish food, who has inspired generations through her work in Ballymaloe Cookery School. She is…

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Katie Sanderson of White Mausu / Next Generation of Irish Food 38:34

2+ y ago38:34

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This is the first in a series of podcasts where we focus on the next generation of makers, bakers and shakers in the Irish food community. In this week’s episode, we speak to Katie Sanderson from her home in Connemara. Katie, who is in her early thirties, spent her youth between Hong Kong and Ireland. Already she has had a colourful and jam-packed …

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What's for dinner? - Christmas around the world 50:43

2+ y ago50:43

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You know the drill….. the Irish Christmas involves visits from Santy, board games with the family, the 12 pubs, the race to catch up with as many people as you possibly know over Christmas week (not this year we know!). Then there’s midnight mass, plunges in the baltic sea and enough food to eat until your side hurts. Mince pies, Christmas puddings…

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