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Following an apparently unstoppable onslaught by the multiples and their promise of convenience and low prices, the family butchers shop has undergone a remarkable renaissance in recent years - greatly helped by the support of quality, fair price and local provenance driven groups such as Euro-Toques Ireland...
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Rachel Gaffney, the famous foodie who’s flying the tricolour for us in Texas shares a story of wonderful time spent at MacNean House & Cookery School with a group of American visitors
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This month Lucy Madden considers with a mixture of sadness and wry amusement some of the consequences that follow high jinks and disrespect for historic properties and antiques - and urges culrpits to ‘Fess up’ or be remembered with contempt.
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Barbara Collins, introduces Ireland’s first potato vodka, recently launched by Hughes Craft Distillery
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KRISTIN JENSEN, co-author of Slainte! The complete Guide To Irish Craft Beers and Ciders, introduces us to ‘ the little black dress of beer’, the Black Donkey Brewing Sheep Stealer Irish Farmhouse Ale - and a pair of brewers who are particularly interested in working with chefs to align their beers with food.
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Euro-Toques chef Martin Dwyer, is much missed in Ireland since he and his wife Sile sold their eponymous restaurant in Waterford and moved to France. They now live in the Languedoc, where they take guests - and feed them very well. This month: Martin extols the joys of the mouthwateringly delicious summer fruits in the South of France
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This month Anne Marie Carroll introduces some very special East Galway dogs - livestock guardian dogs are an ancient solution to a common farming problem.
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Wild strawberries, Fragaria Vssca, the woodland strawberry or fraises des boi,s grow abundantly all over the northern hemisphere and their small, but sweet and intensely aromatically flavoured, fruits are produced generously over a long season - it will surprise many who think of strawberries as a fruit of high summer, that they continue to fruit well into autumn (in season from June to late September).
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French beans are, I think, one of the most underrated of vegetables. Of all the legume family, they are my favourite to eat, more desirable to my mind than runner beans, broad beans and perhaps even peas.
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What it means to be an organic farmer in Ireland today … Jenny Young writes about life and work on an organic mixed farm in Co Kildare - and selling its produce
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