The Menu: Taste of West Cork

The splendid Taste of West Cork food festival (Sept 4-13) rolls around once more with yet another celebration of the food culture of Ireland’s original larder and the mighty programme is more ambitious than ever, 140+ events spanning 32 towns and villages, along with eight islands, throughout West Cork. 

Visiting chefs include Derry Clarke, JP McMahon and Kevin Aherne, while The Menu himself will be doing his fancy fry-up thing for a tasting supper of fine West Cork produce in the Uillinn Gallery in Skibbereen.

A rare cookbook workshop collaboration between Urru, in Bandon, and Skibbereen’s Time Traveller bookshop (Sept 5) invites you to bring along any culinary treasures, including old handwritten recipes to be appraised by the experts.