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| Taste Festivals Taste Festivals are a celebration of fabulous food and drink, and excellent company. City based, in unique locations, Taste brings together the city’s best restaurants, food personalities, and speciality food and drinks producers. Features include celebrity chefs’ live cookery demonstrations, tutored wine tastings, and the opportunity to enjoy sampler menus from the top restaurants, as well as VIP dining and entertainment. www.tastefestivals.ie |
Irish Seed Savers The ISSA is a voluntary organisation dedicated to the location and preservation of traditional varieties of fruit and vegetables. The Association maintains a seed bank which distributes seed of these non-commercially available vegetables, as well as a network of heritage potatoes. We pass them on to members so that they can learn to save them and in this way ensure a living agricultural legacy. A primary goal of the ISSA is to bring Ireland's cultural and genetic heritage into the hands of ordinary people. One of the unique aspects of seed saving networks, which exist all over the world, is the opportunity to share in the responsibility and joy of conserving the planet's diminishing genetic resources in a real and practical manner. www.irishseedsavers.ie |
| Good Food Ireland Good Food Ireland is an industry driven food tourism organisation which was established in November 2006. Many good food operators in a cross-section of establishments all around the island from restaurants to accommodation, pubs to food shops to cookery schools wanted to be recognised and endorsed for their commitment to using Irish, local and artisan food produce. They wanted to share experiences and be cooperatively marketed to the domestic and international tourist. Agriculture and Tourism, two vital economies for Ireland have so much in common and are yet so far apart. Through Good Food Ireland the industry from both these sectors share a common belief and come together as one. Good Food Ireland brings you the visitor or domestic consumer what we believe is the only way to get a true taste of Ireland. www.goodfoodireland.ie |
The Organic Centre The Organic Centre is a non profit organisation set up in 1995, with the aim of providing public education, training and information about organic growing and sustainable living. The Centre is located on a 19 acre site in Rossinver, Co Leitrim, Ireland, and we have outreach centres in Co. Clare and Co. Wicklow. They run workshops on organic horticulture, gardening, green building, alternative energy, and artisan food production, and we offer a year long organic horticulture training programme . |
| Slow Food Ireland Slow Food was founded in Italy 1986 by the eminent Italian food critic and journalist Carlo Petrini. The international movement was launched in Paris in 1989. Slow Food aims are first and foremost to educate people about this wonderful culinary resource in the face of the over-commercialisation and homogenisation of our food. Through education, and what Petrini termed the eco-gastronomic intervention, Slow seeks to conserve endangered seed, breed, cultivar, and process. This scenario is exemplified in the following anecdote: up at the top of a Tuscan valley, there are only two eighty-year old men remaining who know how to make the local sausage, a delicacy based upon a similarly endangered breed of a hardy little red cow. The Slow intervention involves the enlistment of young people to learn the sausage-making technique; incentives for local farmers to breed and expand the shrinking herd of the rare cow; the recording of the production parameters; and assistance in seeking a wider, lucrative market, enabling the product to become self-sustaining, redounding to the benefit of consumers who are guaranteed access to the once-endangered food, the producers and the wider local socio-economy. Hence, Slow Food is an idea and a belief; the idea is that by celebrating the magnificent foods that are under threat from standardisation, bureaucratic hygienism, and commercialisation, we can ensure that these products continue to be made and, having the future of these foods, we are then able to enjoy them! One of the key tenets of Slow Food is the belief in the right to pleasure! www.slowfoodireland.com |
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