With cheese please

SILKE CROPP’S Corleggy Cheeses from Co Cavan were chosen as the supreme winner of the 2003 Ballygowan/Irish Food Writers Guild Food Awards , on September 23 at L’Ecrivain Restaurant, Dublin.

There were four finalists Belvelly Smokehouse, Cobh, Co Cork; O'Doherty's Butchers, Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh; McGeoughs Butchers, Oughterard, Co Galway and Corleggy Cheese.

For the past 20 years down in Belvelly Smokehouse in Cobh, Co Cork, Frank Hederman has cured and smoked naturally locally caught wild fish, or organically cultivated fish and shellfish. What he has on offer at any given time depends on local catches and seasonal availability.