Five producers honoured at coveted Euro-Toques Food Awards 2014

Five food producers were honoured at yesterday’s EirGrid Euro-Toques Food Awards 2014 at the Residence Club, Dublin.

They are buffalo mozzarella cheese producers Toby Simmonds and Johnny Lynch from Toonsbridge Dairy in Macroom, Co Cork; cured and smoked venison producer Ed Hick of J Hick & Sons, Dublin; speciality mushroom producers Lucy Deegan and Mark Cribben of Ballyhoura Mountain Mushrooms, in Co Cork; harvested sea salt producers Marjorie and Kieran O’Malley of Achill Island Sea Salt, Co Mayo; and Mick Healy of Wild Irish Game in Co Wicklow.

Euro-Toques commissioner general Wade Murphy, of 1826 Adare restaurant in Adare, said: “All five winners are true champions of Irish produce and deserved recipients of these coveted awards.