Menu: Gifts for dads who love cooking — and for dads who just love good food

Smoked paprika: Hederman's Smoked Paprika comes highly recommended by the Menu
As most men tend to leave gift-buying until the very last minute, it is somehow appropriate that The Menu has to revisit the whole Father’s Day (June 20) gift schtick to include a couple of late entries. And pick of the bunch is a raffle ticket for a prize that would be ideal for any food-loving father who fancies himself in the kitchen. Sam Gleeson of Clare based company This Is What We Do is putting up two of his own hand-forged knives, a small santoku (traditional Japanese general purpose chef’s knife) and a petty knife (as in ‘petit’, for paring, chopping and cutting jobs too small for a standard chef’s knife).