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If you are looking for an old or out-of-print cookbook, you could try to contact Cooking the Books for their catalogue; email: cooking_the_books@msn.com Tel/fax:0044 1633 400150 or write to Cooking the Books, The Glen, St Brides Netherwent, Caldicot, NP26 3AT, Britain.
Garden Allotments to rent: Would you like to enjoy your own freshly-grown produce? Grow beautiful fruit and vegetables on your own plot in a peaceful rural setting, just five minutes from Garryvoe Beach. Various plot sizes available and advice from Carewswood Garden Centre, Castlemartyr. For further details call 086-3003810.
Cobh Waterside Farmers Market has been in business for one year. It happens every Friday morning, and the new location for the winter is Keen House yard.
Rudd's Fine Foods is back in business under the new ownership of Bill O'Brien of the Brady Family Ham company, making a new range of dry-cure thick cut rashers, pork sausages and black and white puddings.
The Irish Society of Poultry Fanciers wrote to apologise to anyone inconvenienced by the cancellation, due to Avian Flu restrictions, of its national show at Gurteen Agricultural College last Saturday, as tipped in last week's column.
