Here's the food highlights so you can plan your 2015 culinary campaign

While Neidín may be enjoying the downtime and a well-deserved rest, stamping hoofprints all over his regular postcards from Torremolinos, The Menu has the maps and charts spread out all over the table in the war-room, planning for the 2015 culinary campaign ahead. 

Though the next Kerrygold Ballymaloe Literary Festival of Food & Wine may be five months away, the box office opened this week and with yet another staggering lineup at what in three short years has established itself as one of the world’s major food events. www.litfest.ie

Pig in a day