Into the future

SLOW FOOD West Cork and the Schull ICA recently teamed up to host an event where guild members and their friends and local farming families could meet the foodmakers who sell at the local farmers’ markets.

I came across several good things I would like to track down again, including Sonia Bower's Caribbean Inner Pickles and the rare fruit trees of Paul McCormack.

Tantalising smells were emerging from the kitchen: Carmel Somers of Good Things Café in Durrus was organising a menu of Madeleine McKeever's organic beef. She also cooked delicious braised squid with lime and beautifully crisped organic pork bellies. Cornelia O'Keeffe and Annie Barry were in there putting the finishing touches to Fingal Ferguson's traditionally cured hams.