The Menu: Eat Together, Cork Food Policy Council, Good Things restaurant & Irish Biltongs

If there is a case to be made for GIY being one of Ireland’s most progressive food activist organisations, then The Menu is always happy to testify accordingly, especially taken as he is with this latest initiative, a social eating programme for primary schools, called Eat Together, that begins to address the crucial issue of food education in primary schools.

The six-week programme is designed to give children an experience of eating healthy, seasonal food in a social setting at school and once a week, GIY deliver a hot two-course dinner to the classroom, with learning resources for the teacher to incorporate the experience into the curriculum, making lunch part of the children’s actual education.

Developed in tandem with Tramore Educate Together, there are three schools in Waterford involved in this term (aided by sponsorship from Cashel Blue Cheesemakers).