Euro-Toques Ireland Food Awards 2025
Community, passion and sense of place: that’s what stands out when chefs and producers gather for the annual Euro-Toques Food Awards.
Category: Events & Demos
MC events and cookery demonstrations
2025 Blas na hÉireann Producers’ Champion
Proud to be one of this year’s Blas na hÉireann Producers’ Champions with Anthony O’Toole and Santina Kennedy.
All the fun of the Ballymaloe Festival of Food
The Ballymaloe Festival of Food has something for everyone to taste and try and experience.
Euro-Toques Food Awards 2023
There were brilliant blue skies for the Euro-Toques Food Awards 2023 at Wexford’s Dunbrody Country House Hotel on Monday, where the best of Irish food producers were celebrated by the chefs who use their...
ABV Fest + GIY Food Matters
Two great festivals coming up over the next couple of weekends – and I’m delighted to be working at them both. The first is the ever-brilliant ABV Fest in Belfast. This is the fourth...
Hearsay 2017. Listen – and taste.
When I did a drop off in Kilfinane on Thursday, I met Mike who had flown from Sydney to pick up a Hearsay Audio award for his A Nightmare before Christmas. Friday evening, at...
Hearsay 2017. An Audible Tasting.
Staker, Staker, you can’t catch me, Staker, Staker, you can’t catch me, Staker, Staker, you can’t catch me… Staker Wallace was the bogeyman of Kilfinane. Hanged, drawn and quartered in the revolutionary year of...
Beer and food at Holy Smoke and ABV Fest
This summer I’ve been working with Holy Smoke Cork on a series of beer and food nights, events where we showcase the best of Cork food and beer, with an occasional tot of local...