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The Menu: Meat the Franks
The Menu is oft inclined to doff the cap to a pair of legendary Franks, Krawczyk and Murphy.
By Joe McNamee
The former, Frank Krawczyk, a veritable icon in the pantheon of Irish food heroes, is justly renowned for his stunning range of charcuterie, salamis and sausages and now offers ‘Pig Out’ day courses, sharing the secrets of his art and a bag full of goodies, not to mention a fine lunch to boot (email: westcorksalamis@gmail.com).Meanwhile, Frank Murphy, one of the last of the old-school butchers, based in Midleton, is giving a Slow Food East Cork talk on forgotten beef cuts, breed and feed, hanging times and more at Ballymaloe (Thurs Oct 27, 7pm).
This latter event does present The Menu with something of a quandary for on the same night in Ballymaloe, A Margaret River Wine Region Experience in East Cork begins with surfing on Shanagarry Strand, cricket on the Ballymaloe lawns, followed by a wine-tasting with Australian Winemaker, David Hohnen along with Ted Berner’s Wildside ‘firecooking’ Harvest Supper. (Booking Essential 021-4646785/slowfoodeast-cork@gmail.com) Ah well, another test of The Menu’s legendary stamina!
As I was going over …
For all the supposed rivalry between The Kingdom and The Rebel County, borders tend to blur when it comes to food, so the Inaugural Cork/Kerry Food Forum makes a most common form of sense to The Menu.
Taking place in the Rochestown Park Hotel, Cork (Oct 1), the forum is a brainstorming session aimed at SME food producers, buyers, retailers and distributors (www.wceb.ie/Training-&-Online-Booking). And if you happen to find yourself on the road between Cork and Kerry, near to Macroom town, then do check out the inaugural Macroom Food Festival (Sept 27-30), featuring an inter-schools cook-off competition along with the Taste Trail on Saturday. www.macroomfoodfestival.com
Food for mind, body and soul
When The Menu feels the need for a metaphorical culinary cuddle and reassuring arm around the shoulders, nothing will do for him but some splendidly comforting food and a bird’s-eye perch in one of his most favoured venues, The Farmgate in the English Market.
But as of yesterday The Menu took time away from peering down at the fountain and the customers milling below to check out a new exhibition of paintings, Bridge Works, by Cork-based artist, Niamh O’Neill, which runs for another three weeks.
Today’s Special
Skeaghanore West Cork Duck’s produce is a longtime favourite on The Menu’s dining table, so their new smoked duck breast was always guaranteed a more than sympathetic reception.
The deep crimson breast meat could, on first glance, pass for a bresaola, but the tongue says otherwise, relishing a tender, sweet, smoky meat just crying out for a nice rioja. And if you could only imagine how exquisitely it lent itself to sharing a pastry case with some Ballyhoura oyster mushrooms, spinach and a little sage cream, once The Menu donned his apron? — ah, bliss!
Contact Joe McNamee at themenu@examiner.ie
BEER OF THE WEEK
Fürstenberg Premium Lager 5.3%, €2.40
Next time you have thirsty guests around, thrust a Fürstenberg into their hands instead of your usual posh brew and you’re likely to be greeted with raised eyebrows rather than raised glasses — certainly from those of a certain age.
Many will associate the name with a pretty ordinary lager with broad market pretensions in Ireland a decade ago. But keg and bottle are two entirely different items, and this is further complicated when big-brand international beers are brewed locally under licence, often losing much of their essence when reformulated for local tastes.
This is the original, a soft-textured fresh citrussy lager from the south west of Germany. Sláinte! Blake Creedon
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