Kieran 
Just a note to Irish food producers – if you wish to enter the 2009 Blas na hEireann awards, the deadline for sending in your application is September 11th.
You can download it here.
If you’re not an Irish food producer but know one making excellent products, please spread the word! I’m sure they could use a bit of recognition.
Niamh, who works with us, brought my attention to this article on Gizmodo. It’s a 1932 patent for an injector that would fill bananas with ice cream. I think there could be possibilities there.
Given that the patent must have expired by now, if anyone is going to go ahead and produce such a device, let me know!
It might have been another wet summer in Ireland, and the economy doesn’t look like improving any time soon, but at least here in the Kingdom of Kerry we can look forward to a big day out in September. Kerry may not have defeated Meath in scintillating fashion, but defeat them they did, and we can now look forward to meeting Cork in the All Ireland Senior Football final. It doesn’t look like little Róisín (photo above) wont be traveling, but I am making plans already…
My brother Sean wants to head over the the US to visit ice cream shops, and he would love your suggestions as to which ice cream shops he should visit.
(Could he manage 100 shops in 7 days?)
He will definitely be going to New York, so suggestions in the New York area especially welcome, but where else should he go?
What are the unmissable US ice cream shops at the moment?
Please leave comments with your suggestions!
I’m delighted to announce that Murphys Ice Cream has won Artisan Producer of the Year from Food and Wine Magazine. Thank you to our whole team!
Blazing Salads Bakery and Gubbeen Smoke House were highly commended and commended, and I congratulate both of them and encourage you to seek them out.
For your information, Chapter One won Restaurant of the Year, and Sunal Ghai won Chef of the Year.
The Tannery won best of Munster, and the Park Hotel was entered into the Food and Wine Hall of Fame.
The full list is in this month’s Food and Wine Magazine.
Inside, you’ll also find a great list of artisan producers and farmer’s markets.
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There aren’t too many fruits that seem to grow well in our damp climate, at least not in the garden of someone as horticulturally-challenged as myself. However, I do have some wonderful apple trees in the back of the house, and the apples this year are big and full of flavour.
So far, we have just been eating them, but I think I may turn some of them into ice cream – perhaps an apple brandy or blackberry and apple flavour that we can serve in the shops for the autumn.
The birds around the place are quite happy at the moment to be sharing in the bounty, so I’d better get picking soon!
Seems I’ve been included in the top Baking Blogs from the Daily Reviewer. Don’t know if that means anything. 😉
Dingle is a very small town (only 1800 people), and yet it is amazing how many things go on here. Of course there is a huge influx of tourists in the summer, but that doesn’t fully explain it.
Last Saturday, for example, we had the Dingle Regatta, La Solitaire Figaro, and the Tour de Munster all at the same time.
Today, I was looking through the website for the Dingle Film Festival. It promises to be great fun, with a wide range of films and industry luminaries such as Ned Dowd, Marc Flanagan, Pearse Elliot (Man About Dog), etc, arriving into town.
If that wasn’t enough, it’s the same weekend as the Dingle Marathon. One would have thought that it would have been a better idea to put the two events on different weekends, but I guess that wasn’t possible.
It means, however, that if you are interested in coming to either, I’ve been told that there are already 1400 beds booked in town. I didn’t even know we had that many. You’d better get booking. Otherwise, if you have a long lost friend or distant cousin who lives here, it might be your only option…
