The Menu: The Listowel Food Fair

Food news with Joe McNamee

Listowel delights

As home to the late, great John B Keane and an august literary festival, Listowel has long adopted the mantle of literary capital of The Kingdom, but is increasingly making a name for itself on the food front, most especially with the upcoming Listowel Food Fair (November 9-12). While Neidín travels under duress, still bristling at Keane’s decision to have his fictional characters from The Field, Bull McCabe and son, kill a donkey and chuck the carcass in a lake, The Menu is keen to put on his own nosebag for a series of local Dining Circle events