The Menu: Tremendous Tubers

On hearing of a spud-related attempt to enter the Guinness Book of Records, The Menu immediately hitched up the wagon and pointed it westwards once more for The Menu truly venerates this most tremendous of all tubers.

A Taste of West Cork food festival are hoping to set a record for the greatest amount of varieties gathered and baked in one venue (The Harvest Food & Craft Market on Sept 16) and are encouraging prátaí people from all over to post two potatoes (one for baking, one for display), especially unusual or rare varieties to A Taste of West Cork Box Office, Bridge St, Skibbereen, Co Cork.

For Skibbereen, with its tragic famine past, the ‘humble spud’ will always come freighted with the weight of history so no better place to host a celebration of the national vegetable as part of one of the country’s premier food festivals.