Having grown up in Laois in the 1960s and ‘70s I hardly recognise today’s Irish foodscene. It’s fantastic. Ireland has always been full of great cooks and creatives and to see all that fantastic produce now being shown off in the best way possible is a dream!
I wish the UK ( where I now live) supermarkets would take on the initiative of bringing products from here to their shelves as is being done in Ireland ( there are a few, but too few) and if they could get some Irish products in as well then all the better!
We noted the Guardian placed White Mausu and Harry's Nut Butter in the top five Indie Food Products in the UK (White Mausu was #1!) So some of our foods are making it to the UK. UK supermarkets do not adopt the same policy of promoting artisans however. Big loss.
I think people are being far more adventurous with their cooking these days. No more the meat and three vegs, we want to experiment, and there is such a mix of cultures here in Australia which gives us a great choice of food, but I am still to find Nduja and Burrata in our local supermarkets much to my dismay. Thank you for another interesting post.
We're happy to be able to get Cork Buffalo Burrata in our local supermarket, and you can get Nduja, but not from Ireland. There is an Nduja made in Northern Ireland however. You are lucky with your mix of cultures though.
wow, Ireland sounds much better than England! What an awesome array of bits, thanks for sharing x
Having grown up in Laois in the 1960s and ‘70s I hardly recognise today’s Irish foodscene. It’s fantastic. Ireland has always been full of great cooks and creatives and to see all that fantastic produce now being shown off in the best way possible is a dream!
I wish the UK ( where I now live) supermarkets would take on the initiative of bringing products from here to their shelves as is being done in Ireland ( there are a few, but too few) and if they could get some Irish products in as well then all the better!
We noted the Guardian placed White Mausu and Harry's Nut Butter in the top five Indie Food Products in the UK (White Mausu was #1!) So some of our foods are making it to the UK. UK supermarkets do not adopt the same policy of promoting artisans however. Big loss.
I think people are being far more adventurous with their cooking these days. No more the meat and three vegs, we want to experiment, and there is such a mix of cultures here in Australia which gives us a great choice of food, but I am still to find Nduja and Burrata in our local supermarkets much to my dismay. Thank you for another interesting post.
We're happy to be able to get Cork Buffalo Burrata in our local supermarket, and you can get Nduja, but not from Ireland. There is an Nduja made in Northern Ireland however. You are lucky with your mix of cultures though.