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Anthony O’Toole Shares Lessons from the 2026 Chef's Manifesto Action Hub at OmVed Gardens, London
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During this spell of gorgeous weather, we've been feasting on huge salads. The garden is bursting with beautiful produce, there are scarcely enough meal slots to enjoy and celebrate it all and the work of the heroic gardeners who sowed the seeds many months ago.
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Our travels around the country this year have been brilliant so far, thanks to the exceptional weather and – envisaging it from a visitor’s point of view as always – it’s a particular pleasure to find authentic experiences, warm hospitality and quality food with a real Irish feel in popular tourist destinations...
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Darina has been on her travels again, in search of everything that’s best in natural food, sustainability and biodiversity – and this time she headed for County Clare
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The June bank holiday weekend had plenty going for it this year – not least the sunshine – and Bord Bia Bloom celebrated its 20th year of transforming a (very) large site in the Phoenix Park into Ireland’s biggest festival of gardening, food, and sustainable living. It was especially exciting in the early days, because we’d never had anything like this before in Ireland and, being relatively small and pleasingly personal, it stood up surprisingly well against the obvious point of comparison, Chelsea. Two decades on, Bloom has been mindfully developed and, while much bigger – really too much of interest to do justice to on a one day visit now – it has retained a sense of connection as you’re bound to see familiar faces at every turn.
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The famous foodie who’s flying the tricolour for us in Texas shares her experience of a visit to Hillsborough in County Down – a destination that rewards slow travel and curiosity, and one that lingers in the memory long after the visit ends.
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Famed for her passion for natural food, sustainability and biodiversity, Darina is a perfect example of the purposeful traveller. The main reason for a recent trip to Spain was to visit the Todolí Citrus Foundation in picturesque Palmera, on Valencia’s Mediterranean coast, which was founded by former Tate Modern director Vicente Todolí to preserve rare citrus varieties and compile a catalogue of farming knowledge to inspire future generations – and it is probably the world’s largest collection of outdoor citrus fruits. And, on the way, she spent a few days exploring València and the surrounding area…
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Now well established as a major player in Irish food and tourism, Waterford was blessed with fine weather recently for the 17th Waterford Festival of Food which drew some 80,000 people to Dungarvan, Waterford City and surrounding areas, to attend an extraordinary range of events...
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We are saddened by the recent death, after a long illness, of Gearóid Lynch, a great chef and co-owner, with his wife Tara, of the delightful Co Cavan restaurant with rooms The Olde Post Inn
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In this time of apartment living and shortage of storage space, coming up with a book of recipes that covers a wide range of options but only needs one main cooking utensil - a 2lb/900g loaf tin – to do some tasty but no-fuss comfort cooking is a great idea...
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